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Don’t go, Sandra O’

By Montag | Related entries in General Politics, Supreme Court

Associated Press: O’Connor Urged to Reconsider Retirement

In a letter to [Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day] O’Connor, Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Democrats Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Barbara Boxer of California asked the nation’s first female justice to consider staying on the high court if Chief Justice Rehnquist relinquishes the top spot.

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“We urge you to reconsider your resignation and return to the Supreme Court to serve as chief justice, should there be a vacancy,” the senators said in the Thursday letter.

Rehnquist says he’s here to stay… but with his ailing health, the Senators’ letter is far from moot. What impact, if any, will the letter have? Does it go beyond ‘feel-good’ political showmanship? Is it showwomanship in this case?

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