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Article: It's the Economy ... NO, THE SUPREME COURT!(United States Supreme Court and the presidential elections)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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As Democrats dream about the possibility of retaking the White House in 2008, they are also fantasizing about their first Supreme Court appointments since 1994. But the bench of potential candidates is surprisingly thin.[M]ost of the sitting Democratic appellate judges are too old to be considered plausible Supreme Court candidates.
That leaves only one other category of potential Democratic justices: current and former politicians. Politicians tend to be more pragmatic than ideological and [can] build majorities and transform the Court in their own image [emphasis added].
[A]ny Democratic justice appointed from politics would have to be book smart ...