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  EXCLUSIVE: Women, Minorities Top Bush's Supreme Court Short List
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ContributorJ.R. 
Last EditedJ.R.  Jun 04, 2007 02:11pm
CategorySpeculative
News DateJun 04, 2007 02:00pm
DescriptionThe White House is developing a short list of possible Supreme Court nominees so President Bush can move swiftly if a justice retires at the end of June, when the Court breaks for its summer recess, according to sources involved in the selection process.

In that camp are federal appeals court Judges Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown. Both were filibustered by Senate Democrats after Bush nominated them as appellate judges and were eventually confirmed after Senate leaders struck a compromise on judicial nominations.
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