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With those words ended another tortuous episode of indecision in the Clinton White House. Though few who know Stephen Breyer doubt his brilliance as a jurist, the President seemed to lack any compelling reason to prefer him. A Babbitt nomination would have gone further to satisfy the President's stated desire to put someone on the court who had real-world experience as a consensus builder. Arnold, who was once Clinton's law professor, was the choice closest to the President's heart...
...article in Saturday's New York Times,Warren Professor of American Legal History MortonJ. Horwitz called Breyer a socially "conservative"jurist...
...clerks; a four-block walk around the building at lunchtime, along with a visit to the decrepit exercise room in the court's basement. On Saturday nights he and his wife listened to A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor, who dubbed his fellow Minnesotan "the shy person's jurist...
...Court's senior Justice and the author of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, announced his intention to step down. During his 24 years on the high bench, the 85-year-old Justice -- chosen by Richard Nixon in 1970 -- underwent a highly public evolution from conservative to liberal jurist, becoming one of the court's most passionate defenders of constitutional liberties for ordinary citizens. Retiring Senate majority leader George Mitchell was reported to be near the top of the Clinton list of possible replacements...
Politicians are good and judges are good but they are not interchangeable. They approach the same issues from radically different vantage points--the legislator with an eye towards creating a political reality, the jurist toward explaining a legal reality. When a cross-over is attempted, the result is a violation of our Constitution's spirit and often its letter as well...