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AGING COURT

I was thinking about my last post and the rest of Bush's term and who might run in 2008 and it got me wondering about the composition of the current Supreme Court and who might be up soon for retirement or prostate cancer. The ages of the current Justices are as follows.

Stevens 86
Ginsburg 73
Kennedy 70
Scalia 70
Souter 67
Breyer 66
Thomas 58
Alito 56
Roberts 51

Knock one or two or three Justices off the top of that list and replace them with one or two or three Justices like the ones on the bottom of the list and you reorient the Court for a generation. Which is why it makes such a big difference whether the GOP's next candidate for President is Rudy Giuliani or Pat Buchanan, John McCain or Newt Gingrich, and why the conservative wing of the party is going to be very active and vocal through the political process.