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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (28844)	7/17/2005 9:10:49 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 362497

Arlen Specter wants a moderate Supreme Justice. Signs the GOP moderates may not go along with Bush if he nominates a rightwinger. Specter said on "Fox News Sunday" that he would like Bush to pick "somebody who's had more experience, somebody who's been out in the world and has a more varied background." He said someone who has been in politics might be a good choice. "I have expressed the view that it would be useful, in my judgment, to have somebody on the court who does not come from the graduates of the courts of appeals," Specter said. "When you look back at the court which handed down Brown v. Board of Education unanimously, there was an ex-governor, there were three ex-senators, two attorneys general, a solicitor general, a professor and somebody from the SEC." Specter encouraged Bush not to bow to pressure from conservative groups and instead try to preserve the existing ideological balance on the court meaning that his nominee would be a moderate like O'Connor. Bush "stands in a position where he has to put a person on not where the president would be beholden to any group, no matter how much they contributed to his election, but something in the national interest," Specter said. "And when you have these very delicate questions, it's helpful to the country to have somebody who is a swing vote, which maintains the balance."