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...selections so far include 14 women, two blacks). Courts-of-appeals judges appointed by Democratic Presidents outnumber G.O.P. appointees 70 to 58, though Reagan still has twelve unfilled appointments with which to close the gap. Some appeals courts are completely out of sync with the top court. The Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, for example, had 27 cases reviewed by the Supreme Court and only one affirmed. Moreover, some state supreme courts have begun to interpret their own constitutions more liberally than the U.S. Supreme Court does the federal Constitution. For instance, in 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court found...
...second most powerful court in the country is the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. A testing ground for constitutional challenges to federal law, the D.C. Circuit is a potential farm club for the Supreme Court...
Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan's first appointment to the D.C. Circuit, is the favorite to fill the next opening on the Supreme Court during a Reagan presidency. As Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, Bork came to public notice for firing Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned rather than do the deed. Bork intended to resign after firing Cox but stayed on when Richardson told him, "If you quit, there will be no Justice Department...
Another Reagan appointee to the D.C. Circuit, Antonin Scalia, 48, would also be on the President's short list of prospective Supreme Court Justices. Like Bork, he is an articulate apostle of judicial restraint. For example, when the appeals court last year ordered the Food and Drug Administration to examine evidence that drugs used to execute prisoners by "lethal injection" can cause torturous death, Scalia dissented, calling the decision "a clear intrusion upon the powers that belong to Congress, the Executive Branch and to the states." A Roman Catholic, Scalia is personally opposed to abortion. Both Scalia, who taught...
...Walter Mondale wins in November, many Supreme Court watchers expect him to nominate a woman. She could be D.C. Circuit Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 51, a former Columbia law professor who successfully argued several sex-discrimination cases before the high court, or Patricia Wald, 56, another liberal on the D.C. Circuit. Mondale might also choose an old friend, D.C. Circuit Judge Abner Mikva, 58, a liberal activist and former Congressman...