Rumors are swirling that 89-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens may step down next year. The politics this time around will be trickier; no "first Hispanics" or cushion in the polls. The Daily Beast asks Thomas Goldstein, SCOTUSBlog founder, who Obama will pick next.
Fat Judges Need Not Apply
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Justice may be blind, but not when it comes to weight. Paul Campos reports on the bizarre campaign to find a woman to replace David Souter on the High Court-as long as she's thin.
The Court's Other Diversity Problem
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rarer than a lesbian or Latino on the bench: a justice who didn't go to Harvard or Yale. While other speculate on the race and gender of Justice Souter's replacement, Paul Campos explains that SCOTUS' real diversity problem is career path and class, and it wasn't always this way.
Who's the liberal who will replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court? After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pronounced in January that she's been "lonely" ever since Sandra Day O'Connor retired, it has seemed likely that the next Supreme Court judge will be a woman. While Vice President Biden draws up a list of possible nominees, The Daily Beast looks at six well-credentialed women who are likely to be near its top.
Naming the Obama Court
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
Justice Ginsburg's illness has sparked a Washington guessing game about Obama's plans for the Supreme Court. The Daily Beast's Scott Horton on who's first in line.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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