[KDawgCometh]

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Not only that, the question of who replaces Rhenquist as Chief Justice makes this discussion somewhat larger than the one surrounding the Roberts nomination.

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I would assume that the next longest serving justice would get the nod, maybe. I can't see Scalia, Thomas, or Ginsburg as the next chief justice, so it may very well go to stevens. THe supreme court is really gonna be shaken up over the next few years as Stevens and Ginsburg are not young people. Its gonna be very hard for Bush to push through a judge as conservative as Scalia or Thomas, so I really think that we are gonna see a justice along the lines of O'Connor, which might bring a problem in that the Court has been very indecisive in recent years, a good supreme court should lean one way and shold be more along the lines of 6-3 or 7-2