[Mb-civic] Presidents Not Always Happy With Justices - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Presidents Not Always Happy With Justices

By HOPE YEN
The Associated Press
Monday, July 4, 2005; 5:39 PM

WASHINGTON -- Dwight D. Eisenhower called his Supreme Court appointments 
the "biggest damn fool mistake I ever made." Richard Nixon unwittingly 
named the future liberal author of Roe v. Wade. George H.W. Bush's 
choice now evokes a GOP grumble, "No more Souters!"

As President Bush mulls his first high court decision, he knows well 
that the notion of picking a Supreme Court justice is indeed risky 
business. He has to get the justice confirmed and then hope that his 
choice doesn't disappoint him. Already, he's being buffeted by all kinds 
of advice _ not just the institutional "advice and consent" role that 
the Founding Fathers carved out for the Senate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/04/AR2005070400576.html?nav=hcmodule
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