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...Virginia home on Saturday night. Now, barring some unforeseen development, Bush will have his own chief justice in place when the Court begins its new session in October-and he will make his mark on the court for 30 or 40 years. And since Sandra Day O'Connor has declared that she'll remain in her seat until a replacement is confirmed, Bush will have a full court this fall. What's more, at a time when his popularity is at its lowest point and he's getting hammered for the federal response to Katrina, Roberts gives Republicans something...
...year and had been widely expected to resign over the summer. But "the Chief" pressed on with his work, hosted his annual basketball-and-croquet get-together with his former clerks in June, angrily denied he was resigning and watched his former Stanford Law School classmate Sandra Day O'Connor step down before him. Friends said Rehnquist had hoped to make it to the opening of the court on the first Monday in October...
...policy, Bush will surely recalibrate any decisions he might have made before sending another name to the Senate. Besides, there is not much reason to hurry: the Senate Judiciary Committee had planned to meet for several days this week to consider the nomination of John Roberts to replace O'Connor as an associate justice--a schedule that will be affected by Rehnquist's funeral. Even if Roberts' nomination is approved this month, as is expected, the Senate is incapable of acting on two nominations in the next 30 days. If things go quickly--and in Supreme Court nomination politics, they...
...After a stint as an Army Air Corps weather observer in North Africa during World War II, Rehnquist sought out sunny Stanford University for his education. At Stanford Law, he finished first in a class that included Sandra Day, who would later become Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He then won a plum clerkship in the Supreme Court offices of Robert Jackson, well known at the time as the Justice who had taken leave to serve as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials...
...around the world. We don't need media outlets to act more like corporations answering to shareholders than like journalists answering to readers. Patricia Mazzei Coral Gables, Florida, U.S. U.S. Supreme Court Changes Will president George W. Bush's nomination of John G. Roberts to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as Supreme Court Justice [July 18] serve to unify America, or will it lead to a confrontational crisis? The U.S.'s Founding Fathers gave Supreme Court Justices lifetime appointments, not foreseeing the deeply acrimonious partisanship that would exist in today's politics. The majority of Americans support Roe vs. Wade...