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Gerken earned stellar academic credentials, graduating summa cum laude both from Princeton in 1991 and from Michigan Law School in 1994. She went on to private practice after serving as a clerk for Supreme Court justice David H. Souter...
...fight. And Clarence Thomas was nominated by George W. Bush's father, who backed him during a heated confirmation battle. On the other hand, court appointees have a long history of defying political expectations and going their independent way. President Bush's first nominee to the court was David Souter, now a stalwart of the court's "liberal" wing...
...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...
...Connor, in particular, who could also retire during a Bush administration, is noted for her ability to side with the liberal-leaning Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg and Stevens on highly controversial issues like abortion while simultaneously maintaining one foot in the conservative camp, urging the right-of-center Justices to see their way to a compromise. And that's exactly the kind of presence GWB wants to perpetuate in the case of a vacancy...
...Liberals shouldn't expect too much, of course. Bush may not turn out to be as generous as his father, who delivered an inadvertent slam-dunk to liberals in the form of Justice David Souter...