Courting Disaster
August, 2004
If President Bush wins the election, he is almost certain to be able to make the Supreme Court list to the right for a decade o more after he has left office. Because the current Court has split five to four on almost every charged issue, replacing even one justice could have a dramatic effect. The time is ripe. No justice has retired in the past 10 years--the longest stretch without a new face since 1824. Age is catching up with the Court, much as it did in the early 1990s when William Brennan,...
