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Harry Reid and his suggestion of Governor Sandoval as potential Supreme Court nominee

 
Daniel Higdon
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Harry Reid and his suggestion of Governor Sandoval as potential Supreme Court nominee
Senator Harry Reid may have surprised some people when he suggested Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court:


Obama offers Supreme Court hints; top Democrat suggests Republican governor

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid suggested a Republican, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, as a potential nominee. A source confirmed to CNN that the White House is vetting Sandoval, although he has not been actively involved in the process.

[link to www.cnn.com]

It appears though that Senator Reid and Governor Sandoval have shared some mutual interests in the past:


Nevada Governor Pays a Visit to ENN to Reinforce Further Business Ties

LANGFANG, China, Sept 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Brian Sandoval, Governor of U.S. State of Nevada, paid a visit to ENN's headquarters in China on Wednesday, underscoring Nevada's efforts to strengthen its business partnership with the clean energy company.

Sandoval said that his trip to ENN has greatly enhanced the mutual understanding between ENN and Nevada. He added he's very impressed by the company's cutting-edge technologies in the clean energy arena and its dedicated commitment to unremitting innovation.

ENN visited the USA this February, when it signed a cooperation pact with Nevada government, under which ENN will invest billions in Nevada's Laughlin to build a clean energy eco-center, including a solar photovoltaic generation base, a solar manufacturing base as well as a future energy eco-city.

The MOU was inked during the State-visit of Xi Jinping, China's vice-president, to the United States.

This mega project has been embraced by the local officials. ENN's investment "will be a huge boost for Laughlin and Southern Nevada if we can make that happen," said Steve Hill, Nevada's state director of economic development, was quoted by Vegas Inc as saying.

[link to www.prnewswire.com]
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Re: Harry Reid and his suggestion of Governor Sandoval as potential Supreme Court nominee
So this is interesting as well (from 2014)


The Man Who Keeps Harry Reid Up at Night


Which is why the prospect of Sandoval facing off against the occasionally dyspeptic, sharply partisan and manifestly unpopular Senate majority leader in the 2016 U.S. Senate race has some Republicans writing Reid’s political eulogy.
“It would be a wipeout,” said one Nevada insider. “He is 100 percent the perfect candidate against Harry Reid.”
Reid knows this, of course. No one plays the political chessboard like the majority leader; following his moves sometimes feels like watching a real life House of Cards, without the murders. He saw the Sandoval threat coming nearly a decade ago.

Back then, Reid managed to sideline the up-and-coming Sandoval with a federal judgeship. At the time it was considered a masterstroke, a ruthless political killing couched as a bipartisan act. But lifetime appointments don’t always stick.

Sandoval left the bench in 2009 and defeated Reid’s son, Rory, in a race for governor. Now it may be Reid the Elder’s turn as Sandoval could defeat two members of the same family for the two highest offices in the state.


Read more: [link to www.politico.com]
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Re: Harry Reid and his suggestion of Governor Sandoval as potential Supreme Court nominee
Ralston: What to make of Sandoval and the Supreme Court

On the day Antonin Scalia died, I wondered if Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid was thinking of Gov. Brian Sandoval as a replacement, especially since he had pushed him for the federal bench a decade ago.

The New York Times's Jonathan Martin, among others, wondered, too, three days later:

Or he could tap a younger Republican who is politically moderate enough to appeal to Democrats but would still hem in Republicans. Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada supports abortion rights and, after the court’s same-sex marriage decision last year, said his state’s arguments “against marriage equality are no longer defensible.” He is also from a fast-growing and increasingly diverse swing state, is Hispanic and was state attorney general and a federal judge before becoming governor.

[link to www.rgj.com]





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