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...Justices Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas ascending to chief justice: "I have no way of knowing what's in the administration's minds, but I don't personally believe the selection of those individuals on the basis of ideology wouldn't be at least questioned in the Senate...
...Supreme Court. Which means the guessing game is in full swing over which of the court's sitting Justices is most likely to replace him. If he does not go outside for the job, President Bush will probably choose one of the court's two most stalwart conservatives, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Scalia seems to have the edge. "The idea of appointing the first African-American Chief Justice has undeniable appeal to the President," says a top Republican who informally advises the White House on judicial nominations. "But there'd be a huge fight over Thomas, and the President...
...Scalia does not have a lock on the job. According to several sources familiar with White House thinking on judicial nominations, the President and his advisers are worried that the tart-tongued Justice may not have the people skills to manage the court, build consensus among its nine members and represent the institution in public. That may explain why the famously dyspeptic Scalia has become a merry mainstay on the A-list Washington social circuit of late. At parties ranging from a charity dinner at the Kuwaiti embassy two weeks ago to an Inaugural lunch at D.C.'s chic...
...took an unusual coalition of five Justices, including conservatives like Antonin Scalia and liberals like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to come up with the landmark ruling that the guidelines violated defendants' right to a jury trial. But when the Justices debated a remedy, Ginsburg flipped her vote. Instead of backing the Scalia camp's solution, which was to let jurors listen to and rule on all the factors previously reserved for judges, she sided with Justice Stephen Breyer and their three other colleagues, who argued that judges should consult the guidelines but use their discretion on a case-by-case basis...
...goodnights”... After several pundits floated her name as a potential Supreme Court nominee, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan ditched her new $1.4 million Cambridge condo last weekend for a pre-election trip to the nation’s capital, suspiciously close to the Rehnquist estate. Antonin Scalia is already having wet dreams...