Next President Could Get to Reshape High Court
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The winner of the presidential election could reshape the Supreme Court and could have a long-lasting impact on important issues such as abortion, gay marriages and church-state separation.
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President Bush on Tuesday nominated two individuals to replace retiring jurists on federal courts in the Washington area.
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The Supreme Court is meeting to announce new cases it will decide and hear oral arguments.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist&#39;s hospitalization for cancer brings with it the prospect of the first Supreme Court vacancy in a decade and is prompting speculation about who might take his place.
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The news that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has cancer has raised a neglected but weighty factor this election: The next president will very likely choose one or more new Supreme Court justices.
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His cancer surgery over the weekend reminds us that Chief Justice William Rehnquist, appointed to the Supreme Court by President Nixon, is not going to be on the court forever.
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As the Supreme Court prepares to examine the issue, the arguments have again turned to the role of the federal courts.
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Some Republicans are upset that the White House has nominated only 25 people to fill the 47 vacancies now on the federal judiciary. Not to worry. If history is any guide, President Bush can nominate as many people as he wants, but most of them will not don the black robes anytime soon.
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A measure President Bush proposed would create tribunals similar to those that the Supreme Court rejected in June.
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The next president's most enduring legacy may be in an area little mentioned in the campaign so far: the federal courts, where rulings on such hot-button issues as abortion, gay marriage and the death penalty could have lasting impact.
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New court proceedings serve as a reminder that when the president is no longer president, he may be in trouble
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Even a single appointment to the US Supreme Court could prove decisive in the nation's most contentious legal disputes.
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In developments Tuesday at the Supreme Court, the court:
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SUPREME COURT Speculation abounds over the first possible Supreme Court vacancy in ten years, with analysts already batting around names of possible replacements.
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With Supreme Court justices becoming increasingly comfortable in the spotlight, Sen. Arlen Specter says it might finally be time for their close-ups.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal parties have struck a deal for a new process to overhaul in the way Supreme Court justices are selected, NDP Leader Jack Layton said Monday.
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It is axiomatic of presidential politics that while many people are concerned about the future of the Supreme Court, the issue mainly influences narrow groups of voters at either