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Left, Right, Center: The Court Is in Play; Liberal hopes, conservative anxiety over Obama's picks.(Barack Obama)

Article from: U.S. News & World Report Article date: November 17, 2008 Author: Halloran, Liz

Byline: Liz Halloran

When Barack Obama has named Supreme Court justices he admires--the type of constitutional thinkers he might nominate to the high court--his list has included the late Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Appointed in 1953 by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, Warren guided the court to its landmark school desegregation decision: a unanimous rejection of the practice of "separate but equal" for blacks and whites. During his 16 years as chief justice, the popular former two-term GOP California governor emerged as a strong liberal, committed to civil rights ...

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Order in Court Will Be Task for Next President

Posted Jun 27, 08 3:41 PM CDT in US,  Crime & Courts,  Politics 

(Newser) – Recent Supreme Court decisions that broke 5-4 underlined the impact the next president could have on top US judicial body, the Boston Globe notes. The liberal bloc—including John Paul Stevens (age 88) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (75)—is more likely to lose members during the next administration, so a President McCain could greatly change the Court's bent by replacing them with conservative Justices.

"I don't think we see any major change" under a President Obama, who would likely replace one liberal with another, one law professor said. "There will be a great deal of stability in the law," he adds, noting that most justices focus on upholding the law no matter their bent. "It's dangerous to overstate the potential for change."

Source: Boston Globe

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