Imagine if Bush gets 4 appointments...

[nickshepDEM]

1. Roberts.
2. O'Connors replacement.
3. Stevens is getting up there (85) and will probably step down soon.
4. By nominating Roberts to Chief Justice it opens the door for a Scalia retirement.

Whoa.

[NVMojo]

1. America will be served by an anal retentive system ...

[CrispyQ]

2. Horrifying thought! ---eom

[Usrename]

3. Can a meteor just strike us now?

[TaleWgnDg]

4. Huh? Antonin Scalia RETIRE? Nope. No way.

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Huh? Antonin Scalia RETIRE? Nope. No way. Scalia is very *into* pontificating and scolding others in his marvelous (sarcasm) way! He enjoys chewing out lawyers and the other justices while sitting there picking his nose, mentally, as he sits on the SCOTUS during oral arguments.

No way will Scalia retire despite George Walker Bush tossing him aside for John Roberts for Chief Justice! No way.


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"Scalia brought the house down by jokingly denying
any ambitions to be chief justice himself. He would
rather be pope, he quipped, according to witnesses."
("Ex-clerks of Rehnquist Honor Ailing Chief at Bittersweet Gala," by Charles Lane, Washington Post, as appeared in The Boston Globe, last paragraph, June 19, 2005, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/19/ex_clerks_of_rehnquist_honor_ailing_chief_at_bittersweet_gala/ )
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[napi21]

5. First, Scalia will NOT retire! He's way too arrogant for that!

I've listened to Stevens suring a number of speeches and interviews recently. I wish I could be as mentally and physically at 61 as he is at 85!!!! Unless some inforseen illness happens, he's not leaving either!

You are way too paranoid. Go get yourself a beer.

[Gloria]

6. Perhaps a hurricane will hit DC...a "cleansing" of the

whole bunch of them, including Congress

[Lexingtonian]

7. sadly, no

There just aren't enough falling anvils, pianos, and safes these days. I'm not going to mind, though, if Fat Tony Scalia blows an irreparable gasket all on his lonesome (if he hasn't already, that is) at the gay marriage legalizing verdict or Clarence Thomas takes a long hike off a short pier in cement footgear when he misses a major gambling payment.

I have to admit that the younger sorts the Bush people are putting in strike me as improvements, even if they do look like Bob Bork on paper. They will be doing some serious mellowing if they don't want to leave office on a rail. It's the old fellas who lived in and think the America of prior to 1970 is the Paradise that can be regained- like Tony and Clarence and Bobby Bork- that the likes of me will never bury the hatchet with except metaphorically in their skulls.

[TheDonkey]

8. Hopefully Stevens will hold on until 2008.

If he is replaced that would do us much harm. He is a reliable liberal vote.

[CityDem]

9. If we are lucky

Hopefully, Bush will only have the opportunity to replace Rehnquist and O'Connor. Stevens will not leave voluntarily -- he will stay until his health deteriorates. Ginsburg is more of a concern because she has conlin cancer -- don't know the current status of her condition.