Bush will not waste the first nomination of an Hispanic to the U.S. Supreme COurt with the replacement of Renquist. The Democrats will allow Bush to name a solid conservative to replace Renquist, as that will not change the ideological composition of the court. Bush will make the historic nomination of an Hispanic to replace the first liberal resinging from the court. The will be the confirmation fight of the millenium, revealing that the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the D.C. Ciruit Court was just a preliminary. Plus, I don't think President Bush will nominate Attorney General Gonzalez (which is no knock on him). There is a rock-solid Hispanic Judge on one of the Circuit Courts who is high both on our lists of poissibilities as well as the opposition's enemies list.
I wish Bush would nominate Miguel Estrada and force the dems to fillabuster then if they block him and the rino's won't use the nuclear option come back with Garza.
The 4 liberals on the court are not the ones hurting us it is Kennedy against states rights and being an international elitist and O'Connor being very liberal on social issues.
To overturn abortion you would need to replace rehquist with a conservative and replace both Kennedy and O'Connor with a conservative.
But if you could replace just O'connor at least affirmative action could be stopped.
Or if you could replace just Kennedy at least states rights can be protected and no more rulings like no death penalty for 17 year old killers because international law frowns upon us.
What is most annoying is that the gop has picked 7 of the supreme court picks and the court is almost always 5-4 liberal rulings or 6-3 liberal rulings.
Everybody always brings up the bad pick of Souter. But if it wasn't for Reagan trying to score points by picking a woman in O'Connor or a internationalist in Kennedy we wouldn't be in this trouble.
After the Bork demise Reagan should have picked another conservative at that time the senators were much more reasonable than they were today there were no fillabuster threats. Also you might as well have had Jimmy Carter picking Stevens than Gerald Ford picking him.
Well, you better get on the phone to Ralph Neas, then. Because he's been saying the exact opposite, that they will fight any conservative nominee, even to replace Rehnquist.
Anyone who thinks the Democrats are going to roll over is being naive, expecially after what we've seen the last four years. Forcing Bush to select a moderate to replace Rehnquist is the Democrats' one best chance to alter the court's composition for a generation and they know it. I expect them to go all out opposing a conservative replacement for Rehnquist. They have absolutely nothing to lose (worst case = status quo) and everything to gain.