Naked City
Rehnquist dies, Bush wants Roberts to replace him
By Jordan Smith, Fri., Sept. 9, 2005
Many groups, women's rights organizations chief among them, have vowed to fight Roberts' confirmation. They say that 50-year-old Roberts who served as a law clerk for Rehnquist and worked in the Department of Justice before being confirmed to a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2003 is hostile toward women, especially in the areas of equal employment and reproductive rights.
Rehnquist, whom many credit with leading the high court's shift to the political right, served on the court for 14 years as an associate justice before President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the chief justice post in 1986. Unless Bush can vet and confirm a second nominee this month, O'Connor will return to her spot on the bench when the Supremes' next session begins Oct. 3.
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