Three judges nominated to succeed Limbaugh on MO Supreme Court

[EV_Ares]

I didn't know limpballs had a relative on the court in MO. Must be as this guy is from Cape Giaradeau as Rush is.
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Missouri's next Supreme Court judge will be from western Missouri - either Zel Fischer, Lisa White Hardwick or Ronald Holliger.

As required by the state Constitution, the Appellate Judicial Commission on Thursday sent Gov. Matt Blunt three names to succeed former Chief Justice Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., the Cape Girardeau native who last month left Missouri's high court for a seat on the U.S. District Court in St. Louis.

Fischer is an Atchison County associate circuit judge - an elected post, for which he's run as a Republican.

Hardwick and Holliger both sit on the Kansas City-based Western District state appeals court.

Both were appointed to the appeals court bench by Democratic governors - Mel Carnahan for Holliger and Bob Holden for Hardwick - and later kept on the bench with citizens' retention votes.

Holliger also was a Supreme Court nominee last year, but Blunt chose Patricia Breckenridge. And Fischer was a nominee last year to succeed Breckenridge on the appeals court, but Blunt instead chose Alok Ahuja.

Under the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan, Blunt has 60 days to appoint one of the three to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, or the commission will make the choice.

Link to entire article: http://newstribune.com/articles/2008/08/22/news_state/131state11judges.txt

[JohnnyLib2]

1. Damnedest headline in many moons.

:spray:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. I think it's his cousin

I may be wrong, but I seem to recall something like that.

Yep, a cousin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_N._Limbaugh,_Jr.

[EV_Ares]

3. Ah, thanks, should have thought about Wikipedia. eom.