Info on Likely Nominee: Edith Clement

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Tuesday July 19, 2005 · 8:40 AM PDT

2005/07/19 · 08:40

The buzz in D.C. is that Edith Brown Clement is a strong possibility for the Supreme Court nomination expected this week. Some quick bullet points on her after the jump to help provide some background. It is widely believed that President Bush is looking to replace O'Connor with a woman, and that interest took a number of the more obvious choices off of his list. She looks like a very strong contender for the open seat on the Court. Her record as a jurist makes it hard to determine the extent of her judicial conservatism, but several of her decisions make it clear that she is no Sandra Day O'Connor.

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