Justice Souter To Retire

[bush_cheney2004]

An American President's job is never done.....

NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the court's current term.

The court has completed hearing oral arguments for the year and will be issuing rulings and opinions until the end of June.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=103694193

Edited May 1, 2009 by bush_cheney2004

[Shakeyhands]

Souter, Ginsberg and Stevens...... this term is my bet., I wonder if Kennedy and Scalia may go during a possible second Obama term, if they don't pass during the first. It certainly would make things interesting.

[jdobbin]

Souter, Ginsberg and Stevens...... this term is my bet., I wonder if Kennedy and Scalia may go during a possible second Obama term, if they don't pass during the first. It certainly would make things interesting.

It is probably what makes Republicans most crazy about in terms of losing this last election.

No predicting on the Supreme Court retirements. The long lead time to that choice should give Obama a chance to think of some good candidates.

[sharkman]

It is probably what makes Republicans most crazy about in terms of losing this last election.

Are you serious? After watching Obama sign a bill(after letting it sit on his desk over the weekend, after he hurried the congress so much they didn't even read it so they could get it on his desk faster) to spend $780 billion to save America, but it doesn't really kick in until 2010, you think replacing one liberal judge with another tops that? Man, take off your liberal coloured glasses or risk further embarrassment.

[jdobbin]

Conservatives target Sotomayor, Kagan, Wood

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/050...Kagan_Wood.html

A conservative politico likely to work on the coming judicial nomination battle sends over a memo circulating on the right, which targets three likely Obama nominees: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Diane Wood, and Solicitor General Elena Kagan.

The early lines seem to be attacks on Kagan's lack of bench experience, Sotomayor's "temperament," and Wood's rulings on hot-button issues, including an application of a RICO statute in a case against hard-line anti-abortion activist Randall Terry.

I wonder if this is when 60 votes in the Senate won't come in handy.