Supreme Court market lets you put your money where your hunch is

[truthpusher]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/12163346.htm

Posted on Mon, Jul. 18, 2005
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Supreme Court market lets you put your money where your hunch is
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BY ANDRES R. MARTINEZ
Knight Ridder Newspapers
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WASHINGTON - (KRT) - A North Carolina professor has created his own stock market to predict the next Supreme Court nominee, and you can participate.

Kevin McGuire's Supreme Court Futures Market lets you buy and sell play-money shares in any of 15 potential nominees to fill retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's spot. The higher the price for a potential nominee's share, the more likely it is that President Bush will choose him or her, McGuire's theory goes.

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Judge Edith Brown Clement of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans led all Supreme Court candidates named on the Supreme Court Futures Market as of Monday afternoon, trading at $20.

"None of these" was far ahead of her, however, trading at $53. The other 14 named candidates stood as follows:

_Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: $18.

_Judge Emilio Garza, of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals: $10.

_Judge Michael McConnell, of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver : $8.

_Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.: $8.

_Judge J. Michael Luttig, of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals: $7.

_Former Assistant U.S. Solicitor General Miguel Estrada: $5.

_Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Janice Rogers Brown: $4.

_ Judge Edith Jones, of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals: $4.

_Judge John Roberts, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: $4.

_Judge Samuel Alito, of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia: $3.

_Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson: $3.

_Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, former Texas Supreme Court justice: $2.

_Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson: $1.

_Judge William Pryor of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta: 1.

link to complete article: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/12163346.htm

[u2spirit]

1. Is this like the terrorism futures

Poindexter tried to get going. Good god, these people will find a way to profit off of everything.

[wli]

3. isn't Poindexter back?

Maybe it happened after all, and it explains the unusual stock market activity around these terrorist attacks?

[displacedtexan]

2. Okay. My pick is almost last. I might just bet some $.

I predict Ted Olson has been anointed, and Bush* is just waiting for the best time to divert attention from The Rove Conspiracy.

BTW, what's the code for your nifty background & frame?