[Mb-civic] Specter Speculates: O'Connor for Chief? - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Specter Speculates: O'Connor for Chief?

Rehnquist Expected To Resign Soon

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 11, 2005; Page A04

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) complicated 
the already dizzying calculus about the future of the Supreme Court by 
speculating at length yesterday about the possibility that Justice 
Sandra Day O'Connor would stay if President Bush elevated her to chief 
justice.

<>Most Republican officials interviewed this weekend said they expect 
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to announce his resignation soon, 
although they said they had no hard evidence of that. Specter said on 
CBS's "Face the Nation" that his "own analysis is that the chief does 
not intend to step down as long as his health holds up." But then he all 
but endorsed the idea that O'Connor, whose swing vote has both vexed and 
pleased conservatives, would be a shrewd choice for chief.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/10/AR2005071000855.html?nav=hcmodule 

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