Jimmy Carter was the last president to pass his first four-year term in the White House without the opportunity to choose a Supreme Court justice. President Bush could be the next.
Although picking a justice is a plum assignment for a president, a retirement and confirmation battle so close to his re-election campaign is likely to provoke a political imbroglio that Bush might prefer to avoid.
Read the full report from CNN.
Jimmy Carter was the last president to pass his first four-year term in the White House without the opportunity to choose a Supreme Court justice. President Bush could be the next.
Although picking a justice is a plum assignment for a president, a retirement and confirmation battle so close to his re-election campaign is likely to provoke a political imbroglio that Bush might prefer to avoid.
Read the full report from CNN.
Jimmy Carter was the last president to pass his first four-year term in the White House without the opportunity to choose a Supreme Court justice. President Bush could be the next.
Although picking a justice is a plum assignment for a president, a retirement and confirmation battle so close to his re-election campaign is likely to provoke a political imbroglio that Bush might prefer to avoid.
Read the full report from CNN.
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