Possible Supreme Court Nominees
June 9, 2005
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
nytimes.com
Filed at 5:10 a.m. ET
Some possible Supreme Court nominees if Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist steps down:
--James Harvie Wilkinson III, appointed to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., by President Reagan in 1984. He has built a solidly conservative record.
--Michael McConnell, a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A respected conservative legal scholar, he enjoys bipartisan support in the academic community.
--J. Michael Luttig, a Texas native who worked in the Justice Department during the first Bush administration. He was named to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1991.
--Samuel Alito Jr., a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. He is nicknamed ''Scalito'' because he has views like Scalia.
--John Roberts, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2003 and former Rehnquist clerk.
--Miguel Estrada, a native of Honduras whose nomination to an appeals court was also blocked by Democrats. He is a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
--Emilio Miller Garza, judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Bush's father, the first President Bush, considered the Hispanic judge a Supreme Court prospect.
--Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, a former White House counsel and Bush confidante.
--Edith Jones, a judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and former general counsel for the Texas Republican Party.
--Theodore B. Olson, Bush's solicitor general until last summer. He represented Bush in the 2000 Bush v. Gore case at the Supreme Court.
--Larry Thompson, deputy attorney general and the Bush administration's highest-ranking black law-enforcement official until he quit in 2003. He is general counsel at PepsiCo.
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