"Judge Edith Brown Clement is a safe choice for Bush," says political science professor Mark Hurwitz, an expert on judicial politics at the University at Buffalo. "Bush gets a woman to replace O'Connor, and a reliable conservative who should be easily confirmed because she doesn't have too much written history for liberals to attack and she had a strong confirmation vote to the Court of Appeals in 2001."

"Judge Edith Brown Clement is a safe choice for Bush," says political science professor Mark Hurwitz, an expert on judicial politics at the University at Buffalo. "Bush gets a woman to replace O'Connor, and a reliable conservative, who should be easily confirmed because she doesn't have too much written history for liberals to attack and she had a strong confirmation vote to the Court of Appeals in 2001."