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Justice David Souter To Retire in June

by: Louise

Fri May 01, 2009 at 06:25:35 AM EDT


UPDATE: Justice Souter's letter to the President here.

This is BIG.

Per NPR, Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter is retiring from the bench at the end of term in June:

NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the current court term.

The vacancy will give President Obama his first chance to name a member of the high court and begin to shape its future direction.

At 69, Souter is nowhere near the oldest member of the court. But he has made clear to friends for some time that he wanted to leave Washington, a city he has never liked, and return to his native New Hampshire.

Factors in his decision no doubt include the election of President Obama, who would be more likely to appoint a successor attuned to the principles Souter has followed as a moderate-to-liberal member of the court's more liberal bloc over the past two decades.

In addition, Souter was apparently satisfied that neither the court's oldest member, 89-year-old John Paul Stevens, nor its lone woman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had cancer surgery over the winter, wanted to retire at the end of this term. Not wanting to cause a second vacancy, Souter apparently had waited to learn his colleagues' plans before deciding his own.

President Obama's choice has an excellent chance of being confirmed by the U.S. Senate, where Democrats now have an advantage of 59 seats to the Republicans' 40.

By the time a vote on a successor is taken, the Senate is anticipated to have a 60th Democrat, as the Minnesota Supreme Court is expected to approve the recount that elected Democrat Al Franken over incumbent Republican Norm Coleman in that state.

Oh, this summer is gonna be FUN...

Louise :: Justice David Souter To Retire in June
I had forgotten what a surprise Souter had been, especially to John Sununu:

Souter was a Republican appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, largely on the recommendation of New Hampshire's former Gov. John Sununu, who had become the first President Bush's chief of staff.

But Souter surprised Bush and other Republicans by joining the court's more liberal wing.

The appointing president had been assured of Souter's credentials by the White House chief of staff, John Sununu, who had known Souter as a conservative member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court when Sununu was that state's Republican governor.

Later on, Souter became a full-fledged member of the court's unabashedly liberal caucus, featuring yet another Republican, John Paul Stevens (appointed by President Ford in 1975), who remains a member of the court to this day.

So, let's start the list of replacements, shall we?

I'm gonna throw Bill Richardson's name in the hat. A long shot, sure, but I'd like to see him have a big role in the country's future decisions and direction.

Next!

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it sure is
going to be an interesting summer. This is TEH BIG ISSUE(tm) for me and why McCain/Palin was such a terrifying prospect. Why was my first reaction to reading this news a knot in my stomach? The next appointment is either a step toward or away from theocracy.

Electricity's for light bulbs!

Let the wild rumpus begin! Next Justice is probably on this list.
United States district court judges
United States district court judges whose names have been mentioned as possible nominees include:

Ruben Castillo (born 1954) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. (born 1957) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
Adalberto Jordan (born 1961) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Vicki Miles-LaGrange (born 1953) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
Richard W. Roberts (born 1953) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Martha Vázquez (born 1953) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

State supreme court justices
State supreme court justices whose names have been mentioned as possible nominees include:

Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr. (born 1955) - Chief Justice, Virginia Supreme Court
Carlos R. Moreno (born 1948) - Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
Robert D. Rucker (born 1953) - Associate Justice, Indiana Supreme Court
Leah Ward Sears (born 1955) - Chief Justice, Georgia Supreme Court
Patricia Timmons-Goodson (born 1954) - Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court

Executive Branch officials
Hillary Clinton (born 1947) Secretary of State, former Senator for New York

No way in hell - that ship has sailed.

Eric Holder (born 1951), Attorney General

Sorry Eric, wait till next time.

Elena Kagan (born 1960), Solicitor General, former dean of Harvard Law School
Janet Napolitano (born 1957), Secretary of Homeland
Security, former Governor of Arizona, former Arizona Attorney General, former United States Attorney.
Very unlikely.
Ken Salazar (born 1955), Secretary of the Interior, former Senator from Colorado, former Colorado Attorney General
Also very unlikely

[edit] State governors
State governors whose names have been mentioned as possible nominees include:

Jennifer Granholm (born 1959), Governor of Michigan, former Michigan Attorney General, former Assistant United States Attorney
Christine Gregoire (born 1947), Governor of Washington, former Washington Attorney General
Deval Patrick (born 1956), Governor of Massachusetts, former Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division

Amd of course Bill Richardson - but umlikely due to influence peddling problem.

United States Senators

United States Senators whose names have been mentioned as possible nominees include:

Robert Menendez (born 1954), Senator from New Jersey

Supreme Court litigators

Prominent attorneys whose names have been mentioned as possible nominees include:

Robert Barnett (born 1946), private attorney
Beth Brinkmann (born 1958), former Assistant to the Solicitor General
Teresa Wynn Roseborough (born 1958), former Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Virginia A. Seitz (born 1956), private attorney
Seth P. Waxman (born 1951), former Solicitor General

Academics

Law professors whose names have been mentioned as possible nominees include:

Pamela S. Karlan (born 1959), litigator and professor, Stanford Law School
Harold Hongju Koh (born 1954), dean of Yale Law School
Richard Revesz (born 1958), dean of New York University School of Law
Kathleen Sullivan (born 1955), Stanford Law School professor
Cass Sunstein (born 1954), Harvard Law School professor


Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.


I LIVE for this stuff!
I actually used the prospect of Souter, Ginsberg and Stevens all retiring or dying to shift dozens of fancepost votes over to Obama in November.

Now if we can just convince Tony "Slap 'em around" Scalia and that potted plant Clarence Thomas to go home.  sigh

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.


No Borking allowed
Besides, the nuts don't have the numbers.

Hand me some popcorn and a diet pop when Obama makes announces his selection.

Maybe there will be a march of mule-f*cking secessionists and teabaggers on the Supreme Court this summer. I can't wait.


And -
We can be assured that whoever is selected will actually be qualified to serve.

Two terrifying words.

Harriet Myers.

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.


Here it comes - actual comment on Town Hall .com
And we thought the right wing had sour grapes before?  This is going to make Palin rallies look like ACLU meetings.

From Michigan-

The short list will contain...
The short list of candidates will contain ONLY those people who have never practiced law, have not paid income tax for the last 10 years, have aborted at least 2 babies, has hired at least one illegal alien and failed to withhold any taxes by paying under the table.

Oh, and they MUST be wealthy as the fee to be nominated will be at least 6 figures.

At least those most likely to resign are all liberals.

The most likely to be struck by lightning--or some other "act of God" (heart attack or brain aneurysm from 9mm bullets)--will be any of the conservatives. Judge Thomas in particular should be constantly looking over his shoulder. Holder and his crony's have him marked, no doubt.

The wingnuts will be scary on this one.

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.


Have we seen anything to believe
that he won't "reach across the aisle" on this issue? He's done everything but stand on his head and eat a bug to be conciliatory to the wingnuts - is there any reason to think he'll change now?

What I think we need is someone left enough to balance out the far right tilt the court has gotten with the last couple appointments. What I think we'll get is someone in the mold of O'Connor - nice, centrist, business-oriented, nothing to really enflame either side, and adding just a touch more tilt to the right with the loss of Souter's firm commitment to individual rights over business/government rights.

I'm dubious that this is a good thing, if you couldn't tell.

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing


That's a horrifying thought
While I would love to have Sandra Day O'Connor back in place of either Roberts or Alito, a justice in her mold would not be a good replacement for Souter.  We need a reliable liberal justice, which would make Souter's retirement a wash.  The right wing cannot legitimately expect to get a right-leaning appointment.  They lost the election, a fact they haven't seemed to come to terms with yet.

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The man who can appoint a load of homophobes to a Faith council
is certainly not above appointing Ken Starr to the USSC

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Agreed
I don't trust Obama.  Which is why I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach this morning when I saw the news about Souter's retirement.

[ Parent ]
We need a freeper report!
ASAP

How about a WOMAN.....
I found this last night...sorry not sure where.
Possible nominees who have been mentioned as being on a theoretical short list include Elena Kagan, the current solicitor general who represents the government before the Supreme Court; Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Diane Wood, a federal judge in Chicago who taught at the University of Chicago at the same time future President Barack Obama was teaching constitutional law there.



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Also

Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Leah Ward Sears, and Kathleen Sullivan on the long list.

The Huff Post short lists include Harold Koh and Seth Waxman to the three women you mentioned on the short list.

Short descriptions here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...


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