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...Right social agenda-- including permitting prayer in schools and banning abortion--that elected politicians in Congress have so far rebuffed. Time, certainly, is on the conservatives' side: the leading liberals on the court, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, are respectively 80 and 77 years old. Rehnquist is 61 and Scalia...
...clerks fanned out to other chambers bearing copies of Burger's resignation letter. The Justices and their staffs were then invited to the court's paneled conference room, where a pair of TVs had been set up. Only when the President appeared on the air with Rehnquist and Scalia standing beside him did the brethren learn the identity of their new chief and new colleague...
...contest to fill Rehnquist's seat quickly narrowed to Scalia and a fellow judge on the appeals court in Washington, Robert Bork. A respected former Yale Law School professor, Bork had been lured from a lucrative law- firm job in Washington to the federal bench with strong hints from the Administration that he would be first in line for the next available spot on the court. But Bork carries some political baggage: as acting Attorney General ! in 1973, he obeyed Nixon's order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; Elliot Richardson had resigned as Attorney General rather than fire...
...Scalia was given first crack at an interview with Reagan, and again the President wasted no time. After trading a few anecdotes with the congenial jurist about old judges they had known, Reagan offered, and Scalia accepted. The tidiness of the selection process pleased the President's advisers; Reagan was spared from ever having...
...Senate is expected to confirm both Rehnquist and Scalia by late summer. Still, both will undergo sharp and searching questioning by liberal Senators. Their nominations raise basic questions about the role of Congress in choosing Supreme Court Justices. Is the Senate's job merely to say whether a President's choice has the intellectual qualifications and experience to sit on the federal bench? If so, Scalia and Rehnquist are above reproach. Both men, declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole last week, have "the experience, the background, the integrity, the intelligence and the right stuff...