Reagan Library opens files on possible GOP SCOTUS nominee

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Source: Politico

The work files of a potential future Republican nominee to the Supreme Court are among a quarter million pages of records the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. made available for research on Monday after President Obama gave the go-ahead last week.

According to a summary on the library's website, speechwriting files account for about 40% of the newly disclosed material. The next biggest chunk, more than 54,000 pages, consists of files from a lawyer in Reagan's White House Counsel's office, Peter Keisler. All the records were requested by members of the public under the Freedom of Information Act.

Why would requesters be interested in Keisler?

Democrats have been skittish about Keisler, a founder of the conservative Federalist Society who served as head of the Justice Department's Civil Division from 2003 to 2007. He was reportedly considered but never nominated by President Bush for a slot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Bush did nominate Keisler to the powerful D.C. Circuit in 2006, but Democrats stalled the nomination.

Keisler's role in defending against lawsuits filed over Bush administration war-on-terror policies complicated his bid. Some Democrats may also have been concerned about his clerkship for D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Bork, whose own nomination to the Supreme Court failed.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0409/Reagan_Library_opens_files_on_possible_GOP_SCOTUS_nominee.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. As long as Dems have the power, there will be no GOP SCOTUS nominee

and that's the law. Obama will remove this moron and send him back to the bottom of the barrel for scraping later.

Hawkeye-X

[Merlot]

2. Since when do political parties nominate SCOTUS?