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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (111033)	12/11/2000 5:22:00 PM
From: brutusdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

But, Neocon, you are seriously damaging your credibility. The ballots are not that delicate. They aren't archeological relics that must be treated like eggshells. At this point I would rather believe a full hand recount of the Florida ballots. I don't think most Americans will accept any less. I hope you reconsider.

To: Neocon who wrote (111033)	12/11/2000 5:28:40 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bios of 9 Supreme Court Justices By The Associated Press -- Chief Justice William Rehnquist: Nominated by President Nixon and sworn in Jan. 7, 1972. Nominated for chief justice by President Reagan and sworn in Sept. 26, 1986. A conservative, Rehnquist, 76, favors states' rights over broad federal government powers and opposes abortion. He served in Nixon's Justice Department before joining the court and was active in party politics. -- Justice John Paul Stevens: Nominated by President Ford and sworn in Dec. 17, 1975. He was a lawyer in private practice and a federal appeals judge before joining the high court. Seen as a solidly middle-of-the-road choice when he joined the court, Stevens, 80, is now viewed as a liberal. Court watchers say this is more a function of the court's rightward shift than of a change in Stevens' views. He has voted against broadening police powers and in favor of abortion rights. -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Nominated by Reagan as the first woman on the court and sworn in Sept. 25, 1981. Before joining the court, O'Connor, 70, was active in Republican politics in Arizona, including a stint as majority leader of the Arizona state Senate. At the time of her nomination, O'Connor was a state-level appeals judge with a reputation for meticulous, conservative rulings. On the high court, she is considered a swing vote. -- Justice Antonin Scalia: Nominated by Reagan and sworn in Sept. 26, 1986. Before joining the court, Scalia, 64, was already defined as a strong conservative over four years as a federal appeals judge in Washington. He has a freewheeling style during oral arguments and is the court cutup. He opposes abortion, and wanted to grant independent counsel Kenneth Starr access to notes of a meeting between the late Clinton White House aide Vincent Foster and his lawyer. -- Justice Anthony Kennedy: Nominated as Reagan's third choice for the seat the president had hoped to fill with conservative theorist Robert Bork. Sworn in Feb. 18, 1988, Kennedy, 64, was a California law professor before becoming a federal appeals judge. He has emerged as the high court's key swing vote. -- Justice David Souter: Nominated by President Bush and sworn in Oct. 9, 1990. At the time of his nomination, Souter, now 61, was a virtual unknown, a government lawyer with few writings and no known public stances on abortion or other hot-button topics. He quickly became a disappointment to conservatives and now sides regularly with the court's liberal wing. -- Justice Clarence Thomas: Nominated by Bush and sworn in Oct. 23, 1991, after the most bitter nomination fight since the Bork hearings. An opponent of affirmative action, Thomas, 52, had served in the Reagan administration and as a federal appeals judge. He is best known for calling the partisan free-for-all over his nomination a ''high-tech lynching.'' -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Nominated by President Clinton and sworn in Aug. 10, 1993. A law professor and former general counsel of the liberal American Civil Liberties Union, she was a vocal legal advocate for women's rights. As a private lawyer, she argued six women's rights cases before the high court in the 1970s and won five. Ginsburg, 67, is a stalwart of the court's liberal wing. -- Justice Stephen Breyer: Nominated by Clinton and sworn in Aug. 3, 1994. He is a former Watergate prosecutor and government lawyer who also taught law and was a federal appeals judge when chosen for the court. Breyer, 62, is a consensus-builder who dislikes dissenting opinions.