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| White House Prepares for Possibility of 2 Supreme Court Vacancies |
| 2010-02-05 |
| Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes to prepare for the possibility of one, and maybe two Supreme Court vacancies this spring. Court watchers believe two of the more liberal members of the court, justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could decide to step aside for reasons of age and health. That would give the president his second and third chance to shape his legacy on the Supreme Court. Last week, when Obama took the nearly unprecedented step of criticizing the court's opinion in a major campaign finance case during his State of the Union speech, some believed he was showcasing for the American people that presidential elections, and Supreme Court nominations count. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Maybe Barry will nominate himself and resign. SCOTUS gotta be a helluva lot less aggravating then his current position, and him being an alleged constitutional "scholar" and all... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-02-05 12:07 |
| #2 Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes... Imagine that! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-05 12:00 |
| #1 Stevens has long let it be known that he will only leave when they have to scrape his decayed remains out of his chair. Ginsburg is even worse, because she believes that her chair is now the "Jewish" chair, and she would never trust Obama to only nominate another Jew for it. Such "seat politics" is not that uncommon on the court, because Democrats firmly believe there should be a "black" justice, a "Hispanic" justice, at least one female justice, etc. Ginsburg just thinks that there should be a perpetual Jewish justice as well. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-02-05 08:35 |