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, Burger (C.J.)
Yeah, no kidding. The WH has to be thinking "oh fuck" because now there will be a huge battle, much more than with Rehnquist, and it will be much harder to push through a right-winger, since you're not swapping one for the other. And all the names talked about were men, and that probably goes out the door now.
Feel sorry for the guy described in the Post yesterday who runs one of the orgs that will be lobbying on the new justice. He was talking yesterday about making vacation plans and such, since rehnquist didn't resign as expected. Welcome to 24/7 work for the next three months.
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Counterpoint - from a reader on the Corner:
"This strikes me as a good thing for Bush. O'Connor was always going to be harder to replace with a real conservative justice than Rehnquist was. And one has to think that the Democrats' plan was probably to let a conservative through to replace Rehnquist, so as to look reasonable to the public, and then send the assassins after whoever Bush named to replace O'Connor.
Now that O'Connor has resigned first, it will be harder for the Democrats to go hard after her replacement, because they won't have another nominee to point to and say, "We confirmed this one, we just don't like this second one."
(Of course they'll still try. This is going to be a bloodbath.)"
