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...Roberts' nomination is approved this month, as is expected, the Senate is incapable of acting on two nominations in the next 30 days. If things go quickly--and in Supreme Court nomination politics, they almost never do--Bush will be lucky to have Rehnquist's replacement on the bench by mid-November...
...promoting the stability of the legal system." If nothing else, that was politically shrewd, since it heartened liberals, who felt he wouldn't set out to unravel every regulation of the past 30 years, but also conservatives, who felt reassured that he wouldn't use a seat on the bench to confect a constitutional right to gay marriage...
...switching Roberts’ nomination from associate justice to chief justice, Bush is hoping to have nine justices on the bench when the Supreme Court’s term starts on October 3. O’Connor has agreed to stay on until she is replaced...
...Roberts is confirmed, he will be, at age 50, the youngest chief justice since John Adams, Class of 1755, nominated 45-year-old John Marshall in 1801. Roberts also has relatively little experience on the bench, having served as an appeals court judge for just three years and written 47 opinions. But Horwitz said that what is so unique, historically, about the Roberts nomination is his lack of prior political activity...
...interest of the Court and the country to have a chief justice on the bench on the first full day of the fall term,” Bush said at the announcement. “The Senate is well along in the process of considering Judge Roberts' qualifications. They know his record and his fidelity to the law. I'm confident that the Senate can complete hearings and confirm him as chief justice within a month...