'Obama is considering Jane Kelly as chief judge '

- US President Barack Obama is considering Judge Jane Kelly to nominate a successor to the mid-February deceased Chief Justice Antonin Scalia. That the New York Times on the authority of an insider. Obama has ordered the FBI to trace the antecedents of Kelly, the source familiar to the American newspaper.

Kelly received three years ago, when Obama wore her for the post of judge of a court of appeal, simply the blessing of the entire Senate. Opting for Kelly brings the Republican group in the Senate, which would lift over the appointment of the presidential elections and announced not to take any candidate Obama into consideration possible doubt. Especially the influential Republican Senator Charles Grassley, who is from Iowa and Kelly previously praised circumstances, could reject her candidacy difficult.