To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Do you know who makes the decision to appoint Chief Justice?
Is it Bush?
98 posted on
07/07/2003 7:54:13 AM PDT by
M. Peach
(eschew obsfucation)
To: M. Peach
There are many great legal scholars here on FR and I'm not one of them, but I believe it is Bush's decision.
To: M. Peach
The POTUS appoints each Justice of the Supreme Court.
To: M. Peach
Do you know who makes the decision to appoint Chief Justice? Is it Bush?
It's whoever the President is when the position opens up, with the "advice and consent" of the Senate.
103 posted on
07/07/2003 7:58:13 AM PDT by
steveegg
(Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, air-burst artillery and thermonuclear weapons)
To: M. Peach
Yes,The POTUS appoints but first he nominates and then The Senate "Advises and DISSENTS"!!!!!
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