Just wanted to share a short email conversation I had with a friend of mine who works for the 5th Circuit. The two leading female candidates for the Court (according to the Times) both happen to be from there (located in New Orleans) so I asked my friend what he knew about them:
Me: Hey babe, I was just reading and article in the Times about possible replacements for O'Connor and they said that if Bush decides to go with a woman, the two most likely to be considered are Judges Edith Brown Clement and Edith H. Jones.
On a scale of ten, just how insane are those two?
Him: Jones is a 10. Very hard core. She recently had the "sleeping lawyer" case and determined that the appellant did not receive ineffective assistance because he couldn't cite to precise portions of the trial where his attorney fell asleep.
Clement is a 9.5. Totally haughty. She goes by "Joy." It doesn't fit.
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