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Selecting a Supreme Court nominee a tricky political game
The piece examines how presidential picks for the Supreme Court have faced party divisions and political calculations since the 1930s. It notes Ford's potential choices, the influence of Republicans, and the balance of ideology, with historic examples from Burger, Rehnquist, Powell, and White, and closes with a note on the Brooklyn battle of 1776.
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James A. Kidney Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Ford
William O. Douglas
Ronald Reagan
Lewis Powell Jr
William H. Rehnquist
Warren E. Burger
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Burger
Minnesota
Eisenhower
Robert Taft
U.S
Circuit Court of Appeals
Nixon
Earl Warren
Byron R. White
John F. Kennedy
Yale Law School
Kennedy