| Breaking news from the Detroit Free Press: WASHINGTON – Gov. Jennifer Granholm will visit theWhite House on Tuesday amid speculation that she’s on President Barack Obama’s short list to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court but a senior administration official says the event is unrelated to the spot on the court. What the event is and who else will be in attendance were not immediately revealed. The official was unwilling to be identified because the meeting and its topic had not yet been made public.
As I mentioned yesterday, it's widely known that Granholm is on the short list of SCOTUS nominees, and she's highly regarded by legal experts as a wise choice to replace Souter. Granholm, 50, graduated from Harvard Law School with honors and was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review. She's been a lawyer at the local, state and federal level, and authored legal opinions as well as scholarly law journal articles. She was a judicial clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Court, which includes Michigan. In 1990, she became a federal prosecutor in Detroit, where she racked up a 99 percent conviction rate. Four years later, she was appointed Wayne County Corporation Counsel. In 1998, she was elected as Michigan's first woman attorney general. In that post, she authored 115 quasi-judicial legal opinions supervising civil, criminal and appellate cases. -snip- Granholm has an appealing personal story, as a career mom who juggled demanding jobs, marriage and three children. She also has been scrutinized by the media and has had no major scandals. "Granholm's an excellent candidate," said Richard Friedman, a law professor and Supreme Court expert at the University of Michigan.
And to the unnamed White House source who says that her meeting tomorrow isn't about SCOTUS, c'mon, do you really think they're gonna say that is? Silly wabbit, that's not how the game of politics is played. Stay tuned... |
