Filling Supreme Court openings offers one of the longest-lasting and most important legacies of any administration. Supreme Court Justice Souter announced yesterday he will be retiring at the end of the current session in June. The Obama administration will have its first opportunity to bring balance back to the Supreme Court. Even though Souter has proven to be less conservative than Republicans have liked, it would be nice to have a solid liberal in that seat -- sort of the opposite of a Scalia you might say.
With Senator Spector's recent move from Republican to Democrat, it becomes less possible for Republicans to mount any kind of an opposition to an Obama nominee. Seating Al Franken will further help ensure that. Obviously, it becomes even more important to all Republicans that Norm Coleman keep up his challenge for that Minnesota Senate seat. But it appears he has less and less hope to do anything except further delay Franken's seating.
Let's get on with it!
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No kidding!!!! I suspect jerk Coleman will drag this out to the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping for another Florida ruling. Perhaps, we here in the Gopher State should have our own Tea Party on the grounds of true "taxation without representation."
troutbirder - an annoyed Minnesotan
I was rather surprised at his retirement. There were a couple older judges I thought were just hanging on until a Democrat won the White House.
But yes the Franken election has lasted almost as long as the Gore/Bush one in 2000. Someone needs to call a halt to it and fill that seat. And then no stopping a nominee worth the Supreme Court seat in my opinion.
Fortunately when the Supremes did their number in 2000 they did cite that it cannot be used for case law. I really think they would not dare do it again.
Troutbirder, let's hope for Minnesota's sake as well as the rest of the country, this thing gets resolved soon.
Jacqui, I was surprised, too. We already know justice Ginsberg plans to retire, and Breyer and Kennedy have also indicated some interest in stepping down as well. To bad Dick Cheney's buddy, Scalia, is a long ways from retirement. I heard some pundits the other day predicting that Obama may have a chance to fill three or even four seats in his first term.
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