O'Connor retires
In what I consier quite a shocker, Sandra Day O'Connor has retired. The crucial centrist swing vote in the vast majority of recent 5-4 decisions, O'Connor's resignation and Bush's likely appointment of a justice in the mold of Scalia is likely to significantly alter the balance of power on the court.
This should be a real test of the recent compromise over judicial nominees. What, exactly, would constitute the "exceptional circumstances" that will cause Democrats to fillibuster Bush's first SCOTUS nominee?
This should be a real test of the recent compromise over judicial nominees. What, exactly, would constitute the "exceptional circumstances" that will cause Democrats to fillibuster Bush's first SCOTUS nominee?
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No one has an opinion on the SCOTUS nomination?
Anyone have a prediction? Is Bush going to go with Gonzales or is he going to go with a more hard core right winger? Would the Democrats in the Senate see Gonzales as a compromise candidate or would his nomination come down to a party line vote again?
Gonzales is an awful choice because the right-wingers think he's too liberal and the left-wingers think he's pro-torture. Only a political idiot would nominate Gonzales. Ergo, W will nominate Gonzales.
The real issue is as follows: When will Ben start a Tour de France post? :-)
But isn't that exactly why Gonzales makes sense? The left will object, the right will object, and Bush can claim the center with a relatively conservtive nominee? He can certainly pick someone a notch or two further right to shore up the right wing, but that almost forces the Democrats into a fillibuster and sucks up the rest of the second term agenda.
And I am disappointed not to have read anything here about the Tour.
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