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Bush's eventual choice of a successor-- his first appointment to the high court--is sure to be one of the most closely watched decisions of his presidency, especially by conservatives and Christian groups determined to make sure he does not offer up another Republican nominee--like David Souter, Anthony Kennedy or for that matter O'Connor--whose votes are not consistently conservative. They want to hold Bush to his campaign promise to appoint a new Justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the anchors of the court's right wing. In his choices for the lower...
Bush's dilemma is complicated by the fact that conservative groups want the President to appoint somebody who has a clear conservative track record, which means the kind of paper trail that will give liberals plenty to go after. "The lesson learned is not to go with people whose history isn't verifiable. You could end up with a shocker that you have to live with for the next 20 years," says Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for the conservative Liberty Legal Institute. Shackelford likes long-serving federal-district-court judges such as Emilio Garza of San Antonio, Texas...
...LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America. But in a piece two weeks ago in which he accurately predicted that O'Connor, not Rehnquist, would be the first to step down, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, one of Washington's best-connected conservatives, also predicted that Bush would appoint Gonzales and might even choose to make him Rehnquist's successor as Chief Justice when Rehnquist retires...
...Reagan lived up to a campaign pledge last week, and the nation cheered. At a hastily arranged television appearance in the White House press room, the President referred to his promise that he would name a woman to the Supreme Court, explaining, "That is not to say I would appoint a woman merely to do so. That would not be fair to women, nor to future generations of all Americans whose lives are so deeply affected by decisions of the court. Rather, I pledged to appoint a woman who meets the very high standards I demand of all court appointees...
...decision to appoint his political enemies to his Cabinet was perhaps the most obvious example of his emotional strength. But there were many others, all of which highlighted a different aspect...