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...grounds can be exploited to garner support from minorities, while obstruction of those failing the abortion test riles up pro-choice groups. Both parties know that in reality it is very difficult to predict a potential nominee’s behavior once he or she is actually on the bench. Republican nominees from Earl Warren to John Paul Stevens to David Souter have gone on to be among the Court’s most liberal justices; Antonin Scalia, widely considered today’s most conservative justice, was confirmed 98-0 by the Senate...
...looking around the green room, artifacts of Gonzalez’s multi-instrumental finesse suddenly uncovered themselves. A guitar sat on the bench next to the artist; an old Casio was propped up against the wall; the mixer case flashed an M83 sticker...
...previous situations, Walsh had sent either left fielder Ian Wallace—who played shortstop for the Crimson two seasons ago—or an extra infielder on the bench to replace Wilson...
...President now has 85 vacancies to fill on the federal bench and 25 nominations waiting in the Senate for confirmation. Perhaps the two most prominent choices are James Buckley, 62, currently president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and Berkeley Law Professor John Noonan, 59, for the Ninth Circuit in the Far West. The Administration has set up an elaborate process to examine candidates. Each receives a ten-page questionnaire. A daylong interview follows at the Justice Department. Further hurdles include review by a special Administration committee that meets each Thursday...
Administration officials admit that they have been indulging at least one prejudice. "There is a conscious attempt," says Rees, "to avoid appointing people who will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic, and 22 female. The long-term impact of younger white male appointments is troubling to liberal activists like Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They will just be hitting their stride in 15 years," she says. "In any question that pits the rights of the individual...