Bush to Announce SCOTUS Nominee
Plans TV Announcement at 9 PM - Rumors say Edith Clement
President George W. Bush has decided on his nominee to succeed retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and will announce his choice in a 9 p.m. televised White House speech, spokesman Scott McClellan said.
McClellan gave no further details. Bush said earlier he had been reviewing candidates from a variety of backgrounds, and refused to comment on possible nominees. Republican activists with ties to the White House are anticipating that Bush’s choice will be Judge Edith Brown Clement of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“The fact that this is the name everybody is hearing is a pretty good sign she’s the one,” said Bradford A. Berenson, a former associate White House counsel under Bush.
Clement’s office in New Orleans declined to comment.
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