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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsGranholm on Supreme Court?
By Ed Brayton
With the retirement of Justice Souter, the talk of Gov. Jennifer Granholm as a possible nominee continues to heat up. Andrew Cohen, a CBS News legal analyst, goes so far as to call the job "hers to lose." I don't buy it.
I do think Granholm will end up on the federal bench at some point. And I do think it would make sense politically for this to happen sooner rather than later, in order to push Lt. Gov. John Cherry into the forefront to set him up for the 2010 gubernatorial race. But I would be very surprised if President Obama were to push Granholm all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court without any previous judicial experience.
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