Samuel Alito is the Nominee or Maybe Luttig

President Bush will announce his new candidate for the SCOTUS tomorrow and per the AP it will be a "solid conservative":

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The web is alive with the prediction that it will be 1) federal appeals judge Samuel Alito and 2) federal appeals court judges J. Michael Luttig running second. Seems that most think that Alito is the one who will be named tomorrow AM:

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Hugh Hewitt and the Powerline guys like Luttig:

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I think the follow is of interest and note:

A judge on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Alito has been dubbed "Scalito" or "Scalia-lite" by some lawyers because his judicial philosophy invites comparisons to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's.........................

Sounds like Alito is a strong constituionalist, and that I like. However it sounds like his nomination will bring about he war that we thought was coming prior to the Miers nomination:

"That is not one of the names that I've suggested to the president," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told "Late Edition" on CNN. "In fact, I've done the opposite. I think it would create a lot of problems.".......................

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., refused to rule out a Senate filibuster. The selection of someone with extreme views will not bode well "for the nomination, for the Supreme Court or for his presidency," he told CBS' "Face the Nation." ...................................

It will be an interesting couple months as the "war" begins.............And it will be a war.........