{"id":2387,"date":"2005-07-01T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2005-07-01T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T21:40:42","slug":"the-next-supreme-court-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/07\/the-next-supreme-court-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"The next Supreme Court justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danithew is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millennialstar.org\/index.php\/2005\/07\/01\/sandra_day_o_connor_retires#c10009\">wondering when we&#8217;re going to begin idle speculation about who might replace Justice O&#8217;Connor<\/a>.  We&#8217;re happy to oblige him.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prawfsblawg.blogs.com\/prawfsblawg\/2005\/05\/draft_post_dont.html\">I&#8217;ve written previously that I think that the best candidate would be Richard Posner<\/a>.  Alas, that probably isn&#8217;t going to happen, for a number of reasons (mostly his age and the fact that conservatives don&#8217;t consider him a reliable conservative vote).  Many media outlets have posted their own speculations recently.  For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2121270\/\">Slate magazine writes<\/a> that likely replacements include John Roberts, Michael McConnell, and Alberto Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s retirement will have a huge effect on the Court.  Her vote has been key in religion-clause cases, abortion cases, death penalty cases, and affirmative action cases, just to name a few.  It will be interesting t0 see who President Bush nominates to replace her, and how that nomination might impact the Court.  <\/p>\n<p>So, who do <em>you<\/em> think could (or should) replace Justice O&#8217;Connor?  And how do you see her retirement affecting the Court for the next several years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danithew is wondering when we&#8217;re going to begin idle speculation about who might replace Justice O&#8217;Connor. We&#8217;re happy to oblige him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}