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"The Candidates and the Court"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this editorial today in the New York Times.  Here are snippets:Among the many issues voters need to consider in this campaign is this vital fact: The next president is likely to appoint several Supreme Court justices. Those choices will determine the future of the law, and of some of Americans? most cherished rights. John McCain and Barack Obama have made it clear that they would pick very different kinds of justices. The results could be particularly dramatic under Mr. McCain, who is likely to complete President Bush?s campaign to make the court an aggressive right-wing force.... Mr. McCain has promised the right wing of the Republican Party that he would put only archconservatives on the Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 21, 2008 (boomark / email).