Posted by Orin Kerr: Who Wants to Draft Judge Prado?: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_06_05-2005_06_11.shtml#1118246328
Both [1]How Appealing and [2]SCOTUSblog provide links today to a new website, [3]www.DraftPrado.org, that claims to be part of an "independent grassroots campaign" to encourage President Bush to nominate Fifth Circuit Judge Ed Prado to the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court Justice for All Americans Imagine a Supreme Court nominee with a mainstream approach to the law who has earned the respect of both Republicans and Democrats. Imagine a nominee for the Supreme Court of unquestioned stature with decades of judicial experience. Stop imagining... Meet Judge Ed Prado. The idea that some average Americans might come together to push a little-known judge for a seat on the Supreme Court is pretty interesting, so I figured I would look into it and see who is behind the campaign. The campaign's website states that it is being run by people who, "[i]n an era of intense partisanship, . . . believe the time is right to come together around a highly qualified consensus nominee." It lists a few names in particular: Arkadi Gerney, Marc Laitin, and Tim Cullen. I googled Arkadi, Marc, and Tim to see if I could find out more about who they are. [4]It turns out that Arkadi, Marc and Tim have together led at least three other campaigns in the last two years, the goals of which might give you a little perspective on this latest independent effort: [5]Run Against Bush: A Movement to Defeat George W. Bush in 2004 Launched late 2003, the Run Against Bush campaign raised over $450,000 in small donations from over 11,000 runners across the country. [6]The KerryConnector Started in July 2003, the Kerry Connector was an online grassroots meeting and house-party tool that was partially integrated into the Kerry campaign website in October 2004 and was a model for the John Kerry Volunteer Center (www.volunteer.johnkerry.com/) that premiered in June, 2004. [7]Concerts for Kerry / Concerts for Change Launched in March 2004, the Concerts effort raised more than $370,000 to support John Kerry from 16,000 concertgoers at events around the country. References 1. http://legalaffairs.org/howappealing/060805.html#003449 2. http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2005/06/blog_roundup_we_1.html 3. http://www.draftprado.org/ 4. http://cgl-group.com/taxonomy/term/13 5. http://www.runagainstbush.org/ 6. http://cgl-group.com/node/9 7. http://cgl-group.com/node/7 _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list Volokh@lists.powerblogs.com http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh