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An unlikely friendship?

by Keith Graham | 0, Add your Comment | May 12 09

searsLeah Ward Sears, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court replacement for Justice David Souter.

Sears became the nation’s first African-American woman to preside over a state Supreme Court in 2005. The Washington Post has written an interesting story — http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/09/AR2009050902519.html?wprss=rss_print — on her friendship with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whom civil rights activists have accused of failing to represent African-Americans interests.

Should that friendship be a factor in deciding whether Sears should be nominated?

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About the author Keith Graham: Keith Graham lives in Atlanta most of the time and on St. Simons Island on Georgia’s coast the rest. Like so many Southerners, Keith was named for a blind piano player, who is now little remembered, and he spent his earliest years living with his parents in the back rooms of a small-town Georgia radio station. Later, he moved to several other states, including North Carolina twice, before returning to Georgia. He has worked for a series of newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal and Constitution from 1979 to 2007.

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