One More Supreme Court Appointment for President Bush?

From Cybercast News Service:

(CNSNews.com) - Conservatives stand a strong chance of securing at least one more seat on the U.S. Supreme Court before President Bush leaves office, according to one conservative court-watcher.

Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, didn't say who might be the next justice to leave, but speculation has recently swirled around Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, a Gerald Ford appointee, who will turn 87 in April.

Whelan told a gathering of conservatives on Saturday that it is important to nominate a compelling presidential candidate in the 2008 presidential campaign because the next president may have the opportunity to appoint up to six new Supreme Court justices.

In addition to Stevens, Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and David Souter are among the most likely to step down between now and 2016, Whelan said.

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My Comments:
If another opportunity for a Bush appointment does present itself, I hope the President's first inclination isn't to "reach out" to the Democrat majority by nominating someone "confirmable" (read: liberal).

Instead, I hope President Bush nominates someone who reflects his judicial philosophy, and if that person isn't confirmed, that he nominates someone else who reflects his judicial philosophy, and if that person isn't confirmed, that he nominates yet someone else who reflects his judicial philosophy, etc.

Place the onus on the Democrats in the Senate. Make them pay the political price for rejecting qualified nominees to the Supreme Court. Make them defend their votes. Make Senators like Bob Casey, Jr. earn their pro-life credentials by standing up to the Senate leadership and all the pro-abort interest groups who will stop at nothing to see only pro-Roe nominees confirmed.