Well *This* Is Good News

Alberto Gonzales says he’s not a candidate for the Supreme Court.

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President Bush could still select his Attorney General as the next Supreme Court judge, but Alberto Gonzales, who has become the most talked about potential jurist, says he’s not a candidate for the high court.

Swinging through Denver to inspect a Justice Department office there, Gonzales told the Denver Post he’s not seeking an appointment to replace outgoing pro-abortion Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

"I’ve been asked since 2001 whether or not I’d consider going on the court, and I’ve consistently said, ‘I’m not a candidate for the Supreme Court’ — and that remains true today," Gonzales said.

"I love being attorney general. My job, currently, is to help the president make this decision," he added.

It’s not a lock-down, but it’s a positive straw in the wind.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

3 thoughts on “Well *This* Is Good News”

  1. My job, currently, is to help the president make this decision,
    That was Dick Cheney’s job in Bush’s 2000 VP-hunt too.

  2. Is it true that Bush told conservatives to “tone down the rhetoric” on the supreme court nominees? If so, I am disappointed.

  3. I don’t believe Cheney ever said he wasn’t a candidate for the VP, though. And Bush was asking people to stop attacking his friend Gonzales; I don’t see anything wrong with that, even if we all disagree with AG’s potential appointment to the court.

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