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While the Kerry campaign made preparations for a victory celebration in Copley Square set for tonight, volunteers at Bush’s election-night headquarters in Washington, D.C. began literally setting the stage for their candidate’s own victory party in the nation’s capital.
Kagan was included in New York Times and Washington Post lists of possible candidates for a John Kerry appointment to the next open seat. If President Bush is re-elected, the papers speculated that he might appoint Washington lawyer Miguel A. Estrada, former Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson or White...
After a decade without a single vacancy opening up on the Court and at least two seats likely to open up in the next four years, the national media has speculated that either Kerry or Bush could have the chance to greatly impact the composition of the Court.
Other candidates on the Kerry short-list compiled by The Times and The Post were Kathleen M. Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School; Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals court judge in New York; and David S. Tatel and Merrick Garland, both federal appeals court judges in Washington.
Story Professor of Law Daniel J. Meltzer ’72 said he had read of Kagan’s rumored appointment under a Kerry administration, and said he thought “she would be superb and sorely missed here.”