Posted on 04/04/2010 5:15:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A leading Democratic senator hopes Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens doesn't decide to retire this year.
The 89-year-old Stevens says he "will surely" step down during Barack Obama's presidency, and will decide soon whether it's this year or next.
Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., worries that a nomination fight this year would mean gridlock in the partisan Senate. Specter thinks there's a better chance for consensus next year.
Specter tells "Fox News Sunday" he hopes Obama would pick someone who would be a check on executive power, as he says Stevens has provided.
Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, isn't ruling out a possible GOP filibuster.
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I would be nice to have a vacant liberal seat when the health care ltitgation gets to SCOTUS.
Sphincter is out of his mind.
Arlen Sphincter used to be somebody. Now he is a traitorous hack...and the sooner Toomey takes his place, the better.
If we can keep voter fraud down in the Philadelphia precinct to 102% turnout, we might have a chance.
there isn’t some sort of backdoor SCOTUS process similar to reconciliation that lets them affirm a law with two votes, is there?
(relax. I am kidding)
Ya don’t even need two votes, just a proclamation by his spiffyness.
Sphinkter is term limitted himself.
I’m trying to figure out why anyone gives a dump what that old fool thinks anyway.
that's right. that little known constitutional provision whereby the president may decree whatever he wants; "The Presidential Decree of Sheer Awesomeness".
One of the few times I agree with Specter. Let Stevens quit in 2012, so we can hold up 0bama’s invariably hard left replacement's nomination right through to 2013, when a conservative president can nominate a proper conservative, constitutionalist judge to the SCOTUS.
No kidding. Is there anyone in the Senate whose opinion I would care about less?
He’s like the 50-year-old debutant who still thinks she turns heads.
Who could possibly care what Sphincter has to say about this or anything other than his impending retirement?
See Raquel Welch on TV this week?.....69 years old and YOWSA!
Oh yes and admitted to being conservative!
Just tell Obama none of his appointees are mainstream enough (Old dem tatic) and stall until we have a Rep. President.
A quorum on SCOTUS is 6. As I recall, a 4-4 vote (or even 3-3) ruling upholds the lower court’s decision but no precedent is set.
“Specter tells “Fox News Sunday” he hopes Obama would pick someone who would be a check on executive power”
For who’s benefit was this FREAKING LIE??
It is vital to the future of the Republic that we win back the Senate in 2010.
Yeah, somebody who got bail for the murderer who kept his girlfriend's body in a closet. Remember the Einhorn case? That should have wrecked Specter's career right there. I don't know what's wrong with Pennsylvania.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this resulted in the first recess appointment to the Supreme Court since Eisenhower appointed Brennan.
It could conceivably even be the first recess appointment not to be subsequently confirmed by the Senate since John Rutledge, who was appointed by Washington.
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