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Chris Shays says the president should avoid nominating an ideologue.
"The president is going to appoint a conservative justice but it would be a huge mistake to name an ideologue. " Congressman Chris Shays of Connecticut served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fiji in the 1960's.
Chris Shays says the president should avoid nominating an ideologue.
Left, right open high court fight
PETER URBAN purban@ctpost.com
WASHINGTON — Let the battle begin.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement announcement Friday has unleashed a war between liberal and conservative groups that will be loud, divisive and well- funded as they seek to sway the makeup of the nation's highest court.
"I think the battle is on," University of Connecticut Law School Dean Nell Jessup Newton said. "She is the balance. She is the fulcrum. She is the center that held."
Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4, said the president should avoid nominating an ideologue.
"The president is going to appoint a conservative justice but it would be a huge mistake to name an ideologue. People want to know that when they go before the court, the decision hasn't already been made — that they will be dealt with fairly," he said.
Shays does not expect Bush to stack the Supreme Court with justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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