Another Alabamian on the Supreme Court?

CNN.com lists two Alabama natives as potential successors to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Edith Brown Clement and William Pryor. Both are currently serving as federal appeals court judges. (Clement was confirmed in November 2001; Pryor was a recess appointment last year and was confirmed this year as part of the "compromise" orchestrated by John McCain.)

Clement is a graduate of The University of Alabama; she earned a law degree from Tulane University. Pryor also went to Tulane for law school, having earned his undergraduate degree from Northeast Louisiana University. He also served as Alabama's attorney general from 1997 until his appointment to the federal bench by President Bush last year.

'Bama has beaten Northeast Louisiana (now known as U. of Louisiana-Monroe) in the only meetings I could find between the two schools with a quick Google search. We beat them 8-5 and 7-0 in baseball in 1995 (as NLU), and we topped them in women's soccer 1-0 in 2002 (as ULM).

Due to this athletic dominance, I must pronounce Judge Clement the more qualified candidate, and give her my full endorsement for the vacant seat on the SCOTUS.

This is all tongue-in-cheek, of course; I'd rather see Janice Rogers Brown get the nomination. (Incidentally, she was born in Alabama, too.) Here's a good bit from La Shawn Barber about Justice Brown.

More to come on the potential nominees with Alabama connections...