[Mb-civic] Court Is Back in Voters' Sight

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Court Is Back in Voters' Sight 
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October 26 2004

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's hospitalization was not the usual sort of October surprise. But the 80-year-old jurist's thyroid cancer is a jolting reminder, if one is needed, that shaping the federal judiciary — most notably the Supreme Court — is one of the momentous things presidents do. 

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