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...another intelligent, affable legal mind along the lines of Roberts—no matter how conservative—would all but ensure an easy confirmation battle. But it is also essential that President George W. Bush preserve the balance in the court by replacing Sandra Day O’Connor with a similarly moderate nominee. This is due to the fact that O’Connor has, for a very long time, been the Supreme Court swing-vote. If she is replaced with a strictly conservative justice, then the opinions of the conservatives on the court would always vote...
...Alito, 55, a white male, does nothing for Bush's onetime goal of diversity in the seat of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He was born in the Trenton area, and attends Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Roseland, N.J. His hobby is baseball: He's a Phillies fan, and coached youth league baseball from 1994 to 2000. He also was mock trial coach at a local high school from 2001 to 2003. He heads for confirmation a strong favorite, but with Republicans recognizing he will have to survive a bruising partisan fight to get there, and that some...
...soldier died in Iraq, George W. Bush is looking to move forward on a number of key issues. The President got an early start on righting things with Republicans by announcing this morning that federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito is the new nominee to replace Sandra Day O?Connor...
...Other projects, however, used the artistic form to scrutinize society. Cailin M. O’Connor ’06 explored the realm of feminism by printing vivid and even shocking images of women—ranging from the classical nude to the bonded victim—on ripped, square pieces of white textiles. She also combined these prints with a multi-colored, abstract drip technique and chose to present the pieces by leaving them scattered on the floor of the studio, accompanied by a photograph of a similarly random arrangement on the asphalt of a parking...
...days before Harriet Miers suddenly withdrew her nomination to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, one of President Bush's leading allies on judicial nominations was moaning at a Washington party about the President's pick to replace Sandra Day O'Connor. "It's a disaster," he said. "I don't understand...