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Roberts’ re-nomination follows the unexpected death on Sept. 3 of former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who holds a masters degree from Harvard. Roberts was previously tapped to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor...
Some speculate that the most consequential nomination for the court will in fact be the justice who replaces O’Connor, who was generally regarded as the swing vote that will determine the future direction of the Court...
...Swapping Roberts for Rehnquist thus leaves the Court’s ideological balance pretty much intact,” Fallon wrote in an e-mail. “O’Connor was pretty conservative, but she was right in the center of the Supreme Court on which she served...
Bono has been reading Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver and has promised to write new songs during this tour. He has already begun one, based on a recent video shoot at a grungy Los Angeles location and a chance encounter with a gay Viet Nam vet. "I spotted empty bottles all over the roof with the label Wild Irish Rose wine," he says. "So I started this song. It is about suicide. The opening line is 'This city of angels has brought a devil out in me.' " (Well, the band has been listening to a good deal...
...does Bush chose to take the O'Connor seat? Conservatives are taking aim once more at Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who they believe might be too moderate. If Bush picks a woman, there's Judge Edith Clement of New Orleans who lost her home in Hurricane Katrina. Bush passed her over last time but her being a storm victim might now give her a certain elan. Priscilla Owen or Edith Jones, both circuit court judges, would please conservatives but would rally Democrats. One White House official says that there's close scrutiny of Larry Thompson, who served as Number...