Supreme Court Justice Appointment: A Crapshoot?
To some the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is a ray of sunshine. It is the opportunity for President Bush to fill an unexpected position on the highest court in the land with a justice whom he hopes will help to fulfill his conservative legacy. But the keyword in that last statement is “hopes.” If there is any doubt to just how skittish these appointments can be, one can look back to President Theodore Roosevelt’s first appointee Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Eisenhower’s appointee Chief Justice Earl Warren, or Truman’s appointee Tom C. Clark. One might even take a look at more recent history — President Reagan’s not-always-predictable appointee Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. It seems that when one is sworn into the most secure job in the United States, they sometimes began to see things a little differently.
posted by YouthPlay Staff @ 9:51 PM
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