JONES, NOT CLEMENT?

See the most recent update two most recent updates to my "Conservatives are told it will not be Gonzales" post.

Note that the righty source for this refers to Jones as "the Female Scalia."

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UPDATE: ABC says it's not Clement. But the last paragraph of ABC's story cites Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown; there's no mention of Jones in the story. I really wouldn't put it past Bush to make the most polarizing choice possible, someone who's been blocked by the Democrats, as the ultimate screw-you.

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UPDATE: Well, now the RedStaters think the nominee will be John Roberts. He's certainly said the magic words:

As Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts argued in a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court (in a case that did not implicate Roe v. Wade) that "[w]e continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled.... [T]he Court’s conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion ... finds no support in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution."

The decision to pick a white male to replace O'Connor would certainly explain why the story "Some in GOP Hope Rice Runs for President" was floating around today, via AP, apparently for no reason whatsoever -- somebody in the administration wanted that out today.