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Time to dust off (and double the size of?) the usual SCOTUS short lists

By Douglas A. Berman

This new ABC News piece, which is titled "White House Prepares for Possibility of 2 Supreme Court Vacancies," suggests that speculations about SCOTUS short lists might need to go into double-time. Here are the basics from the piece: Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes to prepare for the possibility of one, and maybe two Supreme Court vacancies this spring. Court watchers believe two of the more liberal members of the court, justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could decide to step aside for reasons of age and health.  That would give the president his second and third chance to shape his legacy on the Supreme Court.... It is widely believed that Justice Stevens, 89, sent a strong signal of his intention to retire when he confirmed for The Associated Press last fall that he hadn't hired a full complement of clerks for next term...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).