Federal appellate judges Samuel Alito and Michael Luttig are reportedly at the top of President Bush’s list of possible US Supreme Court nominees to replace the withdrawn Harriet Miers as the President reconsiders the nomination at Camp David this weekend. Republicans have said Bush’s short list is similar to the one he reviewed before he chose Miers and includes “highly credentialed, solidly conservative” judges. Conservatives are looking for a pick with judicial philosophies similar to Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, and Alito and Luttig seem to fit that mold. Alito, a judge on the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals, has often been compared to Scalia, even earning the nickname “Scalito,” while Luttig, a US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals judge, worked for Scalia as a clerk. Reuters has more.

Posted: 10|30|05 at 2:39 pm by Joshua Claybourn
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