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While Gonzales, an unlikely and quiet legal student turned Attorney General, is seen as too moderate to please Bush’s conservative base, many experts have said that Roberts, who has taken the established path to the Federal Judiciary, is a likely choice given his conservative record on the bench and, prior to that, his sterling record as an attorney before the Supreme Court. Both men, however, seem to have been put on the fast-track to the top of the legal ladder by their beginnings at Harvard...
Although her teammates and friends are convinced Corriero deserves the ESPY, she faces an uphill battle because of both stiff competition and the relatively small size of the women’s hockey fan base as compared to women’s basketball or softball...
...team just in time to catch the bus to Bruno Stadium, where Lowell was taking on the Tri-City ValleyCats, a minor league affiliate of the Houston Astros. He was barely settled before learning Spinners’ manager Luis Alicea had penciled him into the starting lineup at second base, the position where the Red Sox have told Farkes he’ll get the majority of his playing time...
...also step down soon, it would embroil the President in a complicated set of choices. Would he push for two staunch conservatives? Or offer one hard-liner and one more moderate nominee as an inducement to Democrats to go easy on his more conservative pick? For Bush's conservative base, there is only one way to go. The court has long remained the branch that has thwarted conservatives' key goals, especially an abortion ban. Recent 5-4 decisions affirming the right of a locality to seize private property or forbidding the display of the Ten Commandments on government property--even...
Meanwhile, liberal activist groups are not exactly sitting idle. At the Alliance for Justice, a Washington-based coalition of more than 70 organizations, staff members have been examining speeches, judicial opinions and background information on about 15 potential nominees. People for the American Way has a 2,500-sq.-ft. "war room" in Washington with 40 computer workstations and 75 phones to help its staff members stay in touch with local activists across the country. An e-mail with an embedded hyperlink flashed from the room to 400,000 people around the U.S. last week. "If Bush gives his base...