Word: souter
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Whether or not abortion actually affects Souter's nomination will be of little consequence to the political fallout from a Senatorial floor fight. If the issue on the floor is abortion--as it likely will be--the vote on Souter will be perceived as a de facto vote on abortion...
...Democrats can pry an abortion stance out of Souter, the ensuing floor fight will expose the rift within the Republican party over abortion. It is possible that a significant number of Republican senators--unwilling to vocally fight against abortion and possibly forfeit reelection victories--could defect from the party-line. It happened with taxes, and it can happen with abortion, especially with elections right down the road...
Such a Republican mutiny might prove fatal to the Souter nomination and to any number of wavering Senators. In a worst (or best) case scenario, such a fiasco could significantly undercut Bush's support, which is already descending from its once stratospheric heights...
BUSH COULD obviously see an abortion storm brewing in his Supreme Court nomination. As such, his selection of Souter was necessarily farsighted. A former State Supreme Court judge who has served on the Federal bench for only three months, Souter has almost no record of opinions on national issues like abortion...
...nominee pushed by conservative White House Chief of Staff John Sununu and approved by pro-lifer Bush is unlikely to be pro-choice. But neither Souter nor Bush has chosen to disclose the nominee's opinion on Roe v. Wade, Bush dismissing the issue as unimportant to confirmation...