Posted on 04/30/2009 7:26:56 PM PDT by DrGop0821
President Obama will get his first crack at nominating a Leftist Liberal Radical Activist Judge to America's highest court.
NPR reports:
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.
Souter is expected to remain on the bench until a successor has been chosen and confirmed, which may or may not be accomplished before the court reconvenes in October.
At 69, Souter is nowhere near the oldest member of the court, but he has made clear to friends for some time now that he wanted to leave Washington, a city he has never liked, and return to his native New Hampshire.
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Not a prob ... as long as its Ginsburg, Stevens, or Suter ... or all three - lib for lib ...
More problematic if Kennedy and/or Scalia go ...
Lets posit that McCain was the President. THere’s no way in hell Souter would have retired. Although maybe with they’re only being 40 republicans he’d have have figured that McCain would have had to appoint a moderate anyway.
Ah, what am I saying, even if McCain or even Bush was the President, there’s no way we’d get a conservative confirmed with only 40 Republicans so it doesn’t matter anyway.
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