Reply #24: She's married to a Houston lawyer -- she's a good bet. Also, see this: [View All]

[DeepModem Mom]

Moral conservatives couldn't do any better than Judge Edith Hollan Jones for the Supreme Court seat vacated by retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Judge Jones is considered by many the clear choice in fulfilling President George W. Bush's promise of a Constitution-grounded "strict constructionist."

Just 56, Judge Jones has served twenty years as an appellate judge on the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court. She was appointed by President Reagan in 1985 at the age of 36.

Judge Jones has openly criticized Roe v. Wade, condemns "modish, untested philosophical notions" imposed by the Supreme Court "that would have left the Framers aghast," and believes that the Framers' principles of limited government and personal virtue were derived mainly from the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. In January 2003, she told a University of Virginia audience that the nation's foundational values were Biblical....

http://www.renewamerica.us/news/050710jones.htm