White House Focuses on Three High Court Candidates (Update1)
By Greg Stohr
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration, likely to learn in the next several weeks whether Justice John Paul Stevens will retire, is focusing on three candidates to succeed him, a White House official familiar with the deliberations said.
The group includes U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and federal appellate judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Stevens, who will turn 90 on April 20, told the New York Times and Washington Post in interviews last week that he will decide soon whether he will step down. “The president and the Senate need plenty of time to fill a vacancy,” Stevens told the Times.
The justices are scheduled to rule in dozens of cases, including high-profile fights over gun rights and the fraud conviction of former Enron Corp. chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling, before the term ends in late June or early July.
(More here.)
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration, likely to learn in the next several weeks whether Justice John Paul Stevens will retire, is focusing on three candidates to succeed him, a White House official familiar with the deliberations said.
The group includes U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and federal appellate judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Stevens, who will turn 90 on April 20, told the New York Times and Washington Post in interviews last week that he will decide soon whether he will step down. “The president and the Senate need plenty of time to fill a vacancy,” Stevens told the Times.
The justices are scheduled to rule in dozens of cases, including high-profile fights over gun rights and the fraud conviction of former Enron Corp. chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling, before the term ends in late June or early July.
(More here.)
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