Interesting Options for Bush to Replace O'Connor

Tolling the internet has brought out some interesting links. Here are two:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2122079/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051027/ap_on_go_su_co/miers_who_next

The first from Slate shows some unusual choices save one, Maureen Mahoney. She is a very bright lawyer and litigator. A university of Michigan article says it may have seemed unusual to pick her to represent them in an affirmative action case.

Mahoney says. "I'm a Republican, and there's a common misconception that all Republicans oppose affirmative action," she says. "I care deeply about this case."

In addition to her work on 12 cases, she is familiar with the workings of the court from her time as a clerk for William Rehnquist, now the chief justice of the United States, who was an associate justice when she clerked for him

There are lots of other good candidates, but the key is who is conservative, a constructionist and one who will sail through the nomination and confirmation process.