According to this story by NRO’s Byron York, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) owns numerous domain names tied to potential Supreme Court nominees, including confirmluttig.com, confirmwilkinson.com, confirmalito.com, confirmgarza.com, confirmestrada.com, and confirmjones.com. But don’t think this means they’re likely to back a Bush nominee, as they own stopestrada.com and stoproberts.com too.
The LCCR is not alone, York reports. Both People for the American Way (PFAW) and NARAL Pro-Choice America have purchased numerous pro- and anti-nominee domain names, including stopgonzales.com. NARAL told York not to read too much into the purchase of the anti-Gonzales domain name, as they have not decided whether to oppose a Gonzales nomination. “We are hoping for peace and arming for war,” a spokesperson said. PFAW, on the other hand, has already made clear it would oppose numerous potential nominees for the Supreme Court, including Judges Michael McConnell or Michael Luttig. Nan Aron of the Alliance for Justice has also said her group would seek a filibuster of Judge John Roberts, who most consider a mainstream conservative, for the Supreme Court.
CORRECTION AND UPDATE: As originally written, this post said that PFAW would oppose and urge the filibuster of “mainstream nominees such as the Honorable John Roberts.” While I expect this would be the case, this was an error. It was Nan Aron of the Alliance for Justice, not Ralph Neas, who said her group would urge a filibuster of John Roberts when appearing on the Hugh Hewitt show. (Transcript here.)
The York NRO piece quotes a PFAW representative claiming no decisions have been made as to whether to oppose given nominees. Yet when PFAW’s Ralph Neas was a guest on the Hugh Hewitt show, he said his group would oppose confirmation of McConnell or Luttig, but was not yet decided on Roberts. (Transcript here.) Of note, both the Neas and Aron interviews occurred when it was generally assumed that Chief Justice William Rehnquist, rather than Justice Sandra Day O’ Connor, would be stepping down.
I had confused the two interviews, hence the error. The post has been updated to reflect what Neas actually said on the Hewitt program.
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