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...have to address over the next four years is staggering. There are four Supreme Court Justices over the age of 70 currently serving on the court. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is severely ailing and may resign within the year. The conservative justices President Bush will now almost certainly appoint will begin to build a conservative majority that could reverse the steps taken in Roe v. Wade, in affirmative action cases and in Title IX cases. This country is also currently fighting a war in which many young Americans have sacrificed their lives and about which many young people have...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: No Vote, No Voice | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Hours later, speakers voiced frustration with the United Nations’ persistent failure to take decisive action on Darfur. “For too long the UN has done nothing—appointed a commission to appoint a commission, conducted a study to conduct a study,” Sage lamented...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sudan Rally Turns Up Pressure on Investors | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...victory in this close election can be explained by the one in five voters who said that moral values were the most important issue driving their vote—four out of five of them backed Bush. The fact that the next president would have a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, and the fact that gay marriage was on the ballot in states such Ohio helped drive these voters to the polls, potentially swinging the election in Bush’s favor...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: What Mandate? | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...entirely clear how Bush intends to change the tax code, as he did not talk about this extensively on the campaign trail. According to his advisers, he will appoint a bipartisan commission by the end of the year to explore ideas such as a single-rate flat tax and a national sales tax. It is worrisome that one of the first issues that Bush has began talking about after winning the election is one to which he gave so little attention during his campaign...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: What Mandate? | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Kagan was included in New York Times and Washington Post lists of possible candidates for a John Kerry appointment to the next open seat. If President Bush is re-elected, the papers speculated that he might appoint Washington lawyer Miguel A. Estrada, former Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson or White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kerry May Tap Kagan For Court | 11/2/2004 | See Source »

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