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...Connor, in particular, who could also retire during a Bush administration, is noted for her ability to side with the liberal-leaning Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg and Stevens on highly controversial issues like abortion while simultaneously maintaining one foot in the conservative camp, urging the right-of-center Justices to see their way to a compromise. And that's exactly the kind of presence GWB wants to perpetuate in the case of a vacancy...
Ginsburg wrote that the Supreme Court used the wrong standard in strictly adhering to the Dec. 12 Electoral College deadline. Breyer said there was "no reason" why such a political issue should have been taken up by the court, recommending that Congress resolve the dispute...
According to Hobbs, Marshall scholars often go on to become "leaders in their fields of endeavor." Former scholars include Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt...
...This is where the majority made a serious mistake - a failing the remaining four Justices (Souter, Breyer, Stevens and, most notably, Ginsburg) lambasted in their dissents. The majority chose December 12 arbitrarily, bypassing the more equitable date of December 18 for no reason other than to cut Al Gore's legal options short. As Justice Ginsburg wrote in her opinion, "The December 12 'deadline' for bringing Florida's electoral votes into safe harbor lacks the significance the Court assigns it. Were that date to pass, Florida would still be entitled to deliver electoral votes Congress must count unless both Houses...
...Justice Stevens: "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year? s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation' s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law." Justice Breyer wrote, "What the court has done today it should have left undone...