Nov29th2004

Likely Bush Nominees To The Court

The New Republic has an article describing the likely Bush nominees to the high court, one possible nominee is,

Emilio Garza, 57. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Bush has made no secret of his desire to appoint the first Latino justice, but, last week, he nominated White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, a move some suggest is meant to shore up his credentials with social conservatives for a future Supreme Court nomination. Since Gonzales will help pick Rehnquist’s replacement, he may prefer to keep the Latino seat open for himself. Garza has long been the conservative Latino justice-in-waiting on the appellate bench, but he, too, will run into trouble over Roe. In 1997, his court’s majority struck down a Louisiana law that allowed judges to deny abortion to a minor (and to notify her parents), even if she was mature and the abortion was in her best interest. Garza concurred in the opinion, but he added an injudicious and unnecessary polemic criticizing the Supreme Court’s entire privacy jurisprudence. Garza doesn’t have much of a paper trail in federalism cases and seems like less of an enthusiastic partisan of the Constitution in Exile than his colleague Jones or the Washington lawyer Miguel Estrada, both of whom are also potential Supreme Court candidates. But his lack of respect for settled Supreme Court precedents should set off alarm bells.

Of course my favorite would be Miguel Estrada.

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2 Responses to “Likely Bush Nominees To The Court”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 DD Nov 29th, 2004 at 1:23 pm

    I like Estrada too. He has a never die attitude, which I like. :)

  1. 1 LatinoPundit Trackback on Nov 29th, 2004 at 11:37 am

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