Possible Supreme Court Nomination
Just prior to the nomination of John Roberts in the summer of 2005 to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor, it was widely circulated in the press that Clement would receive the nomination. With John Roberts' promotion to Chief Justice by President Bush, the media mentioned Clement again as a possible choice to fill what would have been his spot as an Associate Justice. Much of this speculation was because Clement is a conservative woman with a limited paper trail on controversial issues. Time, however, stated that Clement's chances were diminished because the Bush Administration believed her to be guilty of excessive self-promotion. Eventually, George W. Bush chose White House Counsel Harriet Miers as his nominee to succeed O'Connor, but with the withdrawal of Miers's nomination, Clement again was thought to be a potential nominee until the nomination of federal judge Samuel Alito, who was ultimately confirmed.
Read more about this topic: Judge Edith Clement
Famous quotes containing the words supreme, court and/or nomination:
“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind’s supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Follow a shaddow, it still flies you;
Seeme to flye it, it will pursue:
So court a mistris, shee denyes you;
Let her alone, shee will court you.
Say, are not women truely, then,
Stil’d but the shaddowes of us men?
At morne, and even, shades are longest;
At noone, they are or short, or none:
So men at weakest, they are strongest,
But grant us perfect, they’re not knowne.
Say, are not women truely, then,
Stil’d but the shaddowes of us men?”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“I shall not seek and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)