If Bush loses he can still appoint a justice to replace the ailing William Rehnquist. Judging by the seriousness of the Chief Justice's health, is it too hard to invision Bush sticking it to us by putting a real nut-job into the court to do some damage as a recess appointment?
If the election were to come down again to the supreme court, without Rehnquist there could be a 4-4 tie. So, Bush can put in the winning vote.
Maybe, I'm being paranoid but the timing is very disadvantagous to Kerry in case of a close vote.
The Post reports the situation is very bleak:
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist did not appear as planned at Supreme Court oral arguments yesterday, announcing that his pledge to do so after receiving a cancer-related tracheotomy 10 days ago was "too optimistic," and that he would remain at home while receiving radiation and chemotherapy treatment.
A diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, the most serious of four forms of the disease, would account for Rehnquist's situation, several experts on thyroid cancer said yesterday.
And no other diagnosis would adequately explain his doctors' treatment decisions, the experts said.
Rehnquist's doctors' approach, in sharp contrast to techniques usually used for milder cancers, suggested the physicians were throwing everything they had at the illness, the experts said.
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at 7:55 PM EST
