Here are judges the White House is considering for the Supreme Court

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Here are judges the White House is considering for the Supreme Court

By Amy Goldstein, Jerry Markon and Sari Horwitz March 7

The White House is considering nearly half a dozen relatively new federal judges for President Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court, focusing on jurists with scant dis­cern­ible ideology and limited judicial records as part of a strategy to surmount fierce Republican opposition.

As Obama prepares for what probably will be his last opportunity to try to shape the high court, after the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the president faces an unprecedented hurdle. The Senate’s GOP majority has vowed to ignore any nominee he proposes.

Based on interviews with legal experts and others, including some who have spoken in recent days with Obama administration officials involved in the vetting process, the president is leaning toward a sitting federal judge to fill the vacancy — and probably one the Senate confirmed with bipartisan support during his tenure. These insiders, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, noted that the administration is winnowing its list of candidates — but that it could add more.

The candidates under consideration include two judges who joined the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2013, Sri Srinivasan and Patricia A. Millett; Jane L. Kelly, an Iowan appointed that year to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit; Paul J. Watford, a judge since 2012 on the California-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit; and a lower-court judge, Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed in 2013 to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/here-are-the-five-judges-the-white-house-is-considering-for-the-supreme-court/2016/03/06/2e785858-e0a4-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html

Related: Biographical Info on Ketanji Brown Jackson, Federal Judge (Associated Press)

[KamaAina]

1. Kelly has the advantage of being from Sen. Grassley's home state of Iowa

it would be terrible optics for him to obstruct a nominee from his own state!

[KamaAina]

2. Meanwhile, Drumpf reveals his Supreme Court pick

[hedda_foil]

3. I hope, hope, hope Ketanji Brown Jackson can be nominated and confirmed.

Another woman! A young (just 45, VERY young for SCOTUS) brilliant, African American jurist in Scalia's seat would be wonderful in so many ways. I doubt if she'll be the pick because because her only "in" for the Republicans on the judiciary committee is that her husband's sister's husband is married to Paul Ryan's sister. I doubt that would influence them, unfortunately. But talk about poetic justice.

But boy does it make me feel old that she's the same age as my eldest daughter.

[whatthehey]

4. Not trying to be a smartass but

wouldn't her husband's sister's husband be married to her husband's sister, rather than Paul Ryan's?

[hedda_foil]

5. Here's the way ABC news explains it. I'm sure I messed it up in that post.

FAMILY — Married, two daughters. Related by marriage to Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan; her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, a surgeon, is the brother of William Jackson, who married Ryan's wife's sister, Dana

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/biographical-info-ketanji-brown-jackson-federal-judge-37493805

[whatthehey]

6. ok got it now thanks

her brother in law is married to Ryan's sister in law.