Novak rpts that Senators are favoring 2 women to replace Miers as nominee

[Rose Siding]

Just a blurb in his column today:

A footnote: Support among senators for Bush's nomination in place of Miers is concentrated on two conservative women: federal Circuit Judge Karen Williams of Orangeburg, S.C., and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak30.html

brief bios...

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-KAREN WILLIAMS, 54: A former trial lawyer, Williams is known as one of the most conservative judges on the nation's most conservative federal appeals court, the Richmond-based 4th Circuit. In 1999, Williams wrote the 4th Circuit opinion that would have paved the way for overturning the landmark 1966 decision in Miranda that outlines the rights read to criminal suspects. The Supreme Court voted 7-2 to let it stand.

-MAURA CORRIGAN, 57: The Michigan Supreme Court justice is a walking billboard for the conservative mantra of judicial restraint - the notion that judges should stick to interpreting the law and not making it. Her resume includes a number of firsts, among them: first woman to serve as chief assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit, first woman to serve as chief judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1154AP_Miers_Who_Next.html

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[Bluebear]

1. Well, I KNEW he would name names.

He likes doing that.

[xultar]

2. I can't wait to see if the fucker is right.

[Journeyman]

3. But Shrubbie already put forth "the most qualified" woman. . .

oh, hell, the "most qualified" candidate were his words, if I recall -- how're we gonna accept second rate, now, especially when the best was so lacking? . . .