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That may be the least of Gore's problems. No one knows for certain how the Supreme Court will rule this week, but Justice Antonin Scalia, in a rare concurring opinion to the court's Saturday ruling, warned that the "issuance of the stay suggests that a majority of the court, while not deciding the issues presented, believe that the petitioner has a substantial probability of success." That would be George W. Bush. For Gore to prevail, one of two swing votes among the nine Justices--either Anthony Kennedy or Sandra Day O'Connor--would have to peel from...
...that. Unlike the high court's first ruling in the case, which was carefully if precariously unanimous, the latest one broke down in just the ideological way everyone had hoped to avoid. The five conservatives--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas--voted to issue the stay. The four liberals--Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter--voted to let the counts...
...Gore had been in the lead, [William] Rehnquist, [Antonin] Scalia and [Clarence] Thomas would have come up on the other side of the equal protection argument," he said...
...yearlong battle cry from his fiercest opponents: If we elect him president, George W. Bush will pack the U.S. Supreme Court with reactionaries! The right wing will take over! Scalia will suddenly look like a moderate! Roe v. Wade is toast...
...Whomever Bush chooses to take over the empty seat, he or she is unlikely to be an Antonin Scalia or a Clarence Thomas or even a William Rehnquist. Instead, the chosen one will fit neatly into the Kennedy-O'Connor mold: Centrist, clear-headed consensus-builders who are more or less immune to politicization of issues. As Pepperdine University constitutional scholar Douglas Kmiec told the Associated Press, "They end up being the glue of the opinion," moderating the conservative camp and mollifying the moderate-to-liberal camp...