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"High Court Buzz Centers on Chicago Judge and Solicitor General"
How Appealing —
"High Court Buzz Centers on Chicago Judge and Solicitor General": Robert Barnes and Shailagh Murray will have this article Thursday in The Washington Post. ...
Justice Wood ?
The Moderate Voice —
Speculation is growing that the next Justice of the US Supreme Court will be Judge Diane Wood of the 7th Circuit Court Of Appeals.
From the Washington Post
President Obama is intensifying his search for a Supreme Court nominee and has interviewed Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago, believed to be among a handful of top contenders.
Wood arrived in Washington on Tuesday to attend a conference at the Georgetown University Law Center, but she met with Obama as well, according to an individual familiar with the ...
ThinkFast: May 21, 2009
Think Progress —
... Obama “has interviewed Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago” as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court. Wood was in town for a legal conference earlier this week but also met with Obama. The two first met when they taught at the University of Chicago Law School. ...
SCOTUS buzz building for Diane Wood
News —
... relying on anonymous sources to question her temperament and intelligence.) And in a WaPo piece today , Wood and Solicitor Elena Kagan are labeled the frontrunners: Wood, 58, is considered an expert on international trade and antitrust issues, and is held in high esteem in liberal legal circles in Chicago for serving as an intellectual counterpart to the circuit's star conservative judges, Frank H. Easterbrook and Richard Posner. "It's hard to overstate how well she is thought of" by Obama's legal allies, said one lawyer who has been consulted by the White House during the ...
