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  • Specter Offers a Suggestion for Chief Justice: O'Connor

    07/10/2005 7:44:34 PM PDT · by Crackingham · 67 replies · 1,583+ views
    NY Times ^ | 7/11/05 | David D. Kirkpatrick
    Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, suggested on Sunday that President Bush could name Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is retiring from the Supreme Court, to the position of chief justice if it opens up. "I think it would be very tempting if the president said to Justice O'Connor, 'You could help the country now,' " Mr. Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania and a pivotal player in any confirmation hearings, said in an interview on the CBS program "Face the Nation." "She has received so much adulation that a confirmation proceeding would be more like a coronation, and she...