AP: Appellate court judge Roberts is Bush pick

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President to officially announce court nominee Tuesday night

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MSNBC News Services
Updated: 7:48 p.m. ET July 19, 2005


WASHINGTON - President Bush has chosen federal appeals court judge John C. Roberts Jr. as his nominee to the Supreme Court, a senior administration official says.

Bush is to announce his choice to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a brief address to the nation Tuesday night. Bush's selection, to be announced with a flourish on prime-time television — with the nominee by the president's side — is expected to set off what may be a major struggle over the direction of the nation’s highest court.

Speculation swept through Washington for much of the day, continuing the guessing game that began after O'Connor resigned July 1. Tuesday afternoon, NBC News learned that Judge Edith Brown Clement is not the president's nominee. Clement, who serves on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, had emerged throughout the day Tuesday as something of a speculative front-runner.
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