The first criteria is gender. If you are a man of any kind of racial/ethnic background, proceed to the bottom of the list. Because after all, ultra liberal Justice Ginsberg is feeling lonely.
The second criteria is, are they some ethic minority; in addition to being a woman. Black Hispanic lesbian female from Illinois would be highly preferred. But this is probably not a viable option of a mixed race/ethnicity and being a lesbian coming from Chicago. So, can Barry get close; while pandering to some other geographic area he has omitted in Cabinet Posts like the deep south or CA? Or, will Barry merely continue to decide based on resorting to some more Chicago-style deep dish cronyism?
The third criteria is judicial appellate court or state Supreme Court experience. Are they actually appellate court or state Supreme Court judges? Instead of lower ranked GOVS or merely law professors, or even worse, just some attorney?
The fourth criteria is short-sighted geographic political pandering for the 2010 election cycle. Can the Abomination pander picking up potential votes by selecting a nominee from a particular geographic area?
The fifth criteria is whether they already are part of the Abominating Administration; requiring a twofer-appoint a justice requiring replacing someone already in the abomination.
The sixth criteria is prior judicial opinions. Have they written anything that really would be construed as being outright wacky and embarrassing during a Senate advise and consent skewering process?
The seventh criteria is what President appointed them to be a federal judge, if applicable. Clinton appointtee, get one extra point. Bush appointee, minus 50 points.
BARELY CONSIDERED OR NOT CONSIDERED AT ALL CRITERIA:
Are they the best and most qualified jurist to spend the next few decades rendering important decisions at SCOTUS?
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Socialistic Pro-Abortion Ultra-liberal Irrational Women most likely to be picked:No. 1: Leah Ward Sears, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Born in 1955 in Heidelberg, Germany. Appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court in February 1992 by Georgia Gov. Zell Miller. Became chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court in June 2005. Has announced plans to retire from the Georgia Supreme Court in June 2009. Graduated from Emory University School of Law in 1980 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995 with a master's of law degree. Worked in private practice in Atlanta from 1980-1985. Became a judge in Atlanta's city traffic court in 1985, and was a state Superior Court judge from 1988-1992.
Odds: 2 Roes to one Wade. Right skin color, panders to ignored south. Weaknesses include being from the South; especially Atlanta and Georgia. Appointed by Zell Miller. Most of the above criteria.
No. 2: Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Born in 1954 in the Bronx, N.Y. Nominated as a federal judge by President George H.W. Bush on November 27, 1991, and confirmed by the Senate on August 11, 1992. Nominated by President Bill Clinton to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on June 25, 1997, and confirmed by the Senate on October 2, 1998. Graduated from Yale Law School in 1979, and worked in private practice as a lawyer in New York City from 1984-1992 before joining the New York County District Attorney's Office, where she served as assistant district attorney from 1979-1984. She then returned to private practice in New York City from 1984-1992.
Odds: 3 O'Connor clones to one Justice Roberts. Weaknesses, appointed by evil Imperialist king, George Bush. Wrong skin color/ethnicity, although this pick would pander to democratic NYC and Mayor Bloomberg as a payback for lots of votes come 2010 election cycle.
No. 3: Sandra Lea Lynch, chief judge of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Born in 1946 in Oak Park, Ill. Nominated to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Bill Clinton on January 11, 1995, and confirmed by the Senate on March 17, 1995. Became chief judge in 2008. Received law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1971. Became an assistant state attorney general in Massachusetts and taught at Boston University Law School from 1973-1974. Worked as lawyer for the Massachusetts Department of Education from 1974-1978. Went into private practice in Boston from 1978-1995, while also serving as special counsel for the state Judicial Conduct Commission from 1990-1992.
Odds: 5 Boston World Series to 1 Yankee. Oldest justice pick at around age 63, plus plenty of pandering to the Kennedy-Boston connection. Weaknesses. Boston-Kennedy connection.
No. 4: Diane Pamela Wood of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Born in 1950 in Plainfield, N.J. Nominated to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Bill Clinton on March 31, 1995, and confirmed by the Senate on June 30, 1995. Received a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1975. Clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun from 1976-1977. Worked as a lawyer adviser in the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser from 1977-1978. Worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1978-1980 before teaching at Georgetown University from 1980-1981. Worked as a professor at the University of Chicago from 1981-1995, where she also served as associate dean from 1989-1992. Worked at the Justice Department as special assistant to the associate attorney general from 1985-1987, and as the Antitrust Division's deputy assistant attorney general for international, appellate and policy matters from 1993-1995.
Odds: 18 armadillos to 1 really rotten US Dept. of Justice. More southern pandering. Not to mention horrible connection to the state of "I am going to mess with" TX. Both Chicago and Georgetown connections.
THE CALIFORNIA PANDERING CHOICE:
No. 5: M. Margaret McKeown of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Born in 1951 in Casper, Wyo. Confirmed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. Received law degree from Georgetown University in 1975. Worked in private practice in Seattle from 1975-1998. Worked as a White House fellow and special assistant to the secretary of the Interior Department from 1980-1981.
Odds: 20 fruitcakes on 1 Govenator Terminator. She's be back for the next SCOTUS vacancy. Too early to pander to CA.
No. 6: Kim McLane Wardlaw of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Born in 1954 in San Francisco. Nominated as a federal judge by President Bill Clinton on August 10, 1995, and confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 1995. Nominated to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Clinton on January 27, 1998, and confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 1998. Graduated from UCLA Law School in 1979 and worked in private practice as a lawyer in Los Angeles from 1980-1995. Worked for President Clinton's Justice Department transition team from 1992-1993 and for Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's mayoral transition committee in 1993.
Odds: 26 liberal Balt Law Schools to none from Harvard/Yale.
OTHER ULTRA-LIBERAL SOCIALIST PANDERING:
No. 7: Elena Kagan, U.S. solicitor general. Born in 1960 in New York City. Nominated for Solicitor General by President Barack Obama. Received a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1986. Worked as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall from 1987-1988. Worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1989-1991 and as professor at University of Chicago law school from 1991-1995. Associate counsel to President Bill Clinton 1995-1996, deputy assistant to Clinton for domestic policy and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council from 1997-1999. Nominated to the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1999 but never received a hearing from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Professor at Harvard Law School since 1999, and dean of the Harvard Law School since 2003.
Odds: Zero.
No. 8 Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Born in 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Received law degree from Harvard University in 1987. Worked as a full-time aide, Michigan campaign for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, 1988. Worked as executive assistant for criminal justice issues in the Wayne County executive office, 1988-89. Worked as a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit, 1990-1995. Worked as Wayne County, Mich., corporation counsel, 1995-1998. Worked as Michigan attorney general, 1999-2002. Became Michigan governor, January 2003.
Odds: 600 crappy Gov. Motors to 1 Ford F-35 fighter truck. Probably not likely due to simple fact no an appellate judge or a native-born American; plus she is Michigan GOV.
No. 9: Pamela S. Karlan, law professor at Stanford University Born in 1959. Received law degree from Yale University in 1984. Worked as clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun, 1985-1986. Worked as assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1986-1988. Worked as law professor at University of Virginia from 1988-1998. Works as law professor at Stanford University and co-founded the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Odds: 6000 avocados to 3 California earthquakes.
No. 10: Kathleen Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School. Born in 1955 in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Received law degree from Harvard University in 1981. Worked as law professor at Harvard University from 1984-1993. Worked as law professor at Stanford University from 1993-1999. Served as dean of Stanford law school from 1999-2004. Works as law professor at Stanford University.
Odds: 120,o000 Commie Law professors to 4 CA nutjob environmental liberal whaco(s).
Group male odds: Bottom of the barrel because these highly unlikely dudes will win SCOTUSBALLS are giving us odds approximately = 20 hells freezing over to 1 get real.
No. 11: Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.Born in Chicago in 1952. Nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1997 by President Bill Clinton. Received law degree from Harvard University in 1977. Clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan 1978-1979. Worked as special assistant U.S. attorney general, 1979-1981. Worked in private practice in Washington, D.C., 1981-1989 and 1992-1993. Worked as assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia 1989-1992. Worked as deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's criminal division, 1993-1994. Worked as principal associate deputy U.S. attorney general, 1994-1997.
No 12: Johnnie B. Rawlinson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Born in 1952 in Concord, N.C. Nominated by President Bill Clinton for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Nominated for the U.S. District Court by President Clinton in 1998. Received a law degree from University of the Pacific in 1979. Worked in private practice in Las Vegas 1979-1980 and as a staff attorney for Nevada Legal Services in 1980. Worked for the Office of the District Attorney, Clark County, Nev. from 1980-1998 serving as deputy district attorney, chief deputy district attorney and assistant district attorney.
No. 13: Ruben Castillo of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.Born in 1954 in Chicago. Nominated by President Bill Clinton for the U.S. District Court in 1994. Received law degree from Northwestern University in 1979. Worked as a lawyer in private practice in Chicago 1979-1984 and 1991-1994. Worked as assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago from 1984-1988. Worked as regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund 1988-1991. Serves as commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
No. 14: Harold Hongju Koh, dean of the Yale University Law School, Born in Boston in 1954. Nominated to be legal adviser to the State Department. Received law degree from Harvard University. Served as law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun 1981-1982. Private practice in Washington, D.C. 1982-83. Worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department 1983-1985. Worked as law professor at Yale University 1985-1998, 2001-2004. Worked as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human right and labor, 1998-2001. Became Yale law school dean in 2001-present.
Odds: You have to be kidding. A long-haired Asian-American male token. Get real and get in line. It's hard enough to get another woman on SCOTUS. And getting a minority woman is really stretching it, as it is. What next for you liberal socialists; a lesbian Hispanic Supreme Court justice?
No. 15 Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Born in 1956 in Chicago. Received law degree from Harvard University in 1982. Worked as lawyer for NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 1983 to 1986. Worked in private practice, 1986 to 1994 and in 1997. Worked as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department, 1994. Worked as chairman of Texaco Inc.'s Equality and Fairness Task Force, 1997. Worked as vice president and general counsel for Texaco Inc., 1999. Worked as executive vice president and general counsel for The Coca-Cola Co., 2001 to 2004. Became Massachusetts governor, 2006.
No. 16:Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago law professor. Born in 1954. Received law degree from Harvard University in 1978. Clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall 1979-1980. Worked in Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department 1980-1981. Worked as law professor at the University of Chicago from 1981-2008. Nominated by President Barack Obama recently to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Odds: 3 to 1 based on having absolutely no qualifications worth considering to be a Sup. Ct. justice.
No. 17: Our favorite-someone not on the intentional far left socialist liberal pro-abortion media bias lists, yet:
Even money.
Now that we have seen the most probably choices, who would I recommend from this list? None of them. I recommend we just clone that rascally, opinionated Justice Scalia whenever there is a need for a new SCOTUS justice. If we have to have a woman to make Ginsburg happy, we will just put on wig on the Scalia clone so she does not get so lonely.
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