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...test could come this summer. Most Supreme Court scholars think two members--Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 76, and Sandra Day O'Connor, who is nearly 71 and was the first woman on the court--want to pack up their robes and go. With a Republican in the White House (put there by the Justices, their critics complain), either could sign off knowing a replacement would bear passing ideological resemblance to him- or herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off The Bench? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

Last month a rumor shot through the legal community that O'Connor would announce her retirement within a few weeks; that came on top of her widely reported dismay, at an election-night party, over news that Florida had gone for Gore. It was "terrible," she said; her husband explained that she wants to retire but not with a Democrat choosing her successor. She's expressed the same desire to friends. Another report, even more recent, had Rehnquist pledging to take a chair at the University of Arizona law school next fall. The guessing game comes in the wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off The Bench? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...replay of my experience," says Robert Bork, a conservative whose 1987 nomination to the court went down in an ugly partisan clash. Bush might get away with naming an unbending conservative to Rehnquist's slot. But one of the toughest tasks of Bush's presidency could be replacing O'Connor--a swing vote on a court that often rules 5 to 4 and the crucial fifth vote upholding Roe v. Wade, since pro-choice groups no longer count on Anthony Kennedy. "Any effort by Bush to appoint a far right-wing Justice to replace O'Connor could make the Ashcroft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off The Bench? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...thin paper trail; and Emilio Garza, a federal appellate judge in Texas who is further to the right--and volubly opposes Roe. Republicans hope that a Hispanic pick would tie Democrats in knots, although for some Senators, antiabortion views would outweigh diversity. Naming a woman in O'Connor's place would be a similar tactic. Edith Jones, another quite conservative federal judge in Texas, has been on the G.O.P. list for years. A less well-known option: Janice Brown, a California Supreme Court judge who is African American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off The Bench? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...record, friends say O'Connor's health is good, despite hand tremors. She made a hole-in-one while golfing on the weekend after the election decision. She's also hiring clerks for the next two terms. Still, family in Arizona and a house she and her husband built there beckon. As for Rehnquist, a widower, the dean of the University of Arizona law school denies that he's about to come on board. But people who know him think he's restless enough to leave the court if, they say, for example, he becomes romantically involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off The Bench? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

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