What's at stake in Election 2004 ?
Make-Up Of Supreme Court
The direction of the U.S. Supreme Court -- and how it rules on everything from civil liability, civil rights, the separation of church and state, abortion to the treatment of suspected terrorists to whether schoolchildren can be asked to pledge their allegiance to "one nation under God" -- could depend on who is elected president in November.
The campaigns and most ardent supporters of President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry are keenly aware that three members of the court -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 79, and Justices John Paul Stevens, 84, and Sandra Day O'Connor, 74 -- are widely expected to step down during the next presidential term.
Here is George Bush short list
Supreme Court advocate called an "aggressive" nomination, he might choose J. Michael Luttig , 50, a judge appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Another aggressive choice for Bush would be fellow Texan Judge Edith Jones of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jones, 55, was a runner-up when the elder Bush appointed David H. Souter to the top court in 1990
A third appeals court judge often mentioned as a possible Bush appointee is Samuel A. Alito Jr. , 54, of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
If Bush wanted to name a Hispanic appellate court judge, he might pick Emilio Garza , 56, of San Antonio , also on the 5th Circuit.
Other appellate judges admired by conservatives include John G. Roberts Jr. , 49, of the District of Columbia Circuit, a former Rehnquist law clerk and frequent Supreme Court advocate who served in the Solicitor General's Office during the elder Bush's administration, and J. Harvie Wilkinson III , 59, a colleague of Luttig's on the 4th Circuit, a former professor and newspaper editor and a clerk for the late Justice Lewis Powell, a fellow Virginian.
If Rehnquist were to step down, and if Bush could nominate his replacement as chief justice, conservatives have just the man in Scalia.
What's at stake in Election 2004 ?
America Wins When America Votes
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The direction of the U.S. Supreme Court -- and how it rules on everything from civil liability, civil rights, the separation of church and state, abortion to the treatment of suspected terrorists to whether schoolchildren can be asked to pledge their allegiance to "one nation under God" -- could depend on who is elected president in November.
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