July 15, 2005

The Court Begins to Shift

By MARK RAHDERT and LAWRENCE WHITE

Significant change is coming to the Supreme Court of the United States. There has been no turnover on the court since the first half of the first term of President Bill Clinton. For the better part of a decade four preponderantly liberal justices have counterbalanced four predictably conservative justices, leaving one member of the court -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- as the only one whose vote matters in many cases. Justice O'Connor is the first member of the court in more than

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