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...Sure, men have been called up on these sorts of charges - Cabinet appointees Ron Brown and Federico Pena and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer all faced similar accusations over the past 10 years - but not one of their eventual appointments was derailed by what was variously portrayed as delinquency or plain old carelessness. Meanwhile, Bush's EPA chief-designate, Christine Todd Whitman, narrowly escaped hired-help disaster during her 1993 gubernatorial run when it turned out her opponent had also hired an illegal worker, thus balancing the scales of wrongdoing...
Indeed, by the very fact of the nomination process, all the Justices have links to one political side or the other. Ginsburg and Breyer were nominated to the court during the Clinton Administration and have been strong supporters of Democratic views. O'Connor was vetted for her post by, among others, James Baker, who led Bush's postelection fight. And Clarence Thomas was nominated by George W. Bush's father, who backed him during a heated confirmation battle. On the other hand, court appointees have a long history of defying political expectations and going their independent way. President Bush...
America's confidence in the Supreme Court is, Justice Breyer wrote in his dissent, a "public treasure." But popular support for the court depends on citizens' believing it is an institution that makes principled decisions of law--not merely partisan choices. And every major decision the court gets wrong does lasting damage to its standing. The court has made mistakes in other critical moments in our nation's history, and it has never completely lived them down: the Dred Scott decision in 1857, upholding slavery, and Koramatsu v. United States, which approved the internment of Japanese-Americans during World...
...unanimous, the latest one broke down in just the ideological way everyone had hoped to avoid. The five conservatives--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas--voted to issue the stay. The four liberals--Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter--voted to let the counts...
...Justice Breyer gave voice in his dissent to an illusion that is retailed all over America: that the votes might have been satisfactorily counted. (Yes, and the Commies will be crushed just after the Lunar New Year.) More likely, the Florida recount would have turned into a decades-long proliferation of suits and countersuits, like Dickens' Jarndyce and Jarndyce...