Thurgood Marshall holds on

Could Marshall have stayed a Justice long enough for Clinton to choose his successor?

If so is this decisive in the way the court votes?

My impression is that, like most people, Marshall believed that GW Bush would win in 92

Had he got doubts about this and realized the awful nature of Clarence Thomas could he have lived and served
 
I think he could stay on until 1992, enough for the Democrats to hold up his successor like the conservatives did to Warren in 1968.

Absolutely decisive. 5-4 conservative becomes 5-4 liberal. But Souter, Kennedy, and especially O'Connor will be more conservative. Depending on who replaces White and Blackmun, the court will still not be as liberal as the Warren Court. Souter was more of a conservative in the mold of Harlan, and won't be keen to legislate from the bench.

Marshall had wanted to retire for some time, but obviously didn't want to do it during the first two administrations to veto civil rights bills since Andrew Johnson. He joked to his aides, "If I die, just prop me up! If he and Brennan knew that Bush would only have one term, I'm pretty sure they would have tried to stay on. But they probably looked back on the last time a party broke two terms, to FDR-Truman, and assumed Bush would win 2 terms. Bush would have to become less popular early on in his presidency. He was in the '60s and '70s when Brennan went in 1990, and Marshall left in 1991 after the Gulf War, when Bush was staggeringly popular.

So I do think you have to avert the Gulf War to have Marshall stay on. Brennan is harder, but since he was replaced by Souter, a lot of people don't care as much. Pretty much everyone at the time realized how atrociously unqualified Clarence Thomas was.
 
I always heard that Harry Edwards, an African American DC Circuit Apeals Court appointed by Jimmy Carter would have been the Democrat's choice to replace Marshall. mMarshall was in bad health after retirement, he would have been absent much of the time.
 
Edwards joins Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer in supporting Gore in Bush v Gore.
aAl Gore 2001 - 2009
mMitt Romney 2009 - 2013
hHillary Clinton 2013 -
 
Hey no Obama! :cool:

That is because with Bush not able to nominate Marshall's successor, Senator Alan Dixon is re-elected in 1992 and remains in the Senate through the 2000's.

Therefore, Carol Moseley Braun remains Cook County Recorder of Deeds and Barack Obama likely remains in the Illinois state legislature.
 
If it's in Clinton's first term, we probably get Laurence Tribe, who'd be 52 in 1993 (and was widely regarded as the leading Constitutional lawyer and scholar on the left at the time). If it's Clinton's post-Dick-Morris, triangulating second term, obviously we get a more centrist pick.
 
That is because with Bush not able to nominate Marshall's successor, Senator Alan Dixon is re-elected in 1992 and remains in the Senate through the 2000's.

Therefore, Carol Moseley Braun remains Cook County Recorder of Deeds and Barack Obama likely remains in the Illinois state legislature.

No, it's a running joke that Paul McNutt has almost never *not* ended a TL with Obama winning 2008, even when it's otherwise implausible.

Holy shit, Braun's from my county? I feel embarassed now.
 
If it's in Clinton's first term, we probably get Laurence Tribe, who'd be 52 in 1993 (and was widely regarded as the leading Constitutional lawyer and scholar on the left at the time). If it's Clinton's post-Dick-Morris, triangulating second term, obviously we get a more centrist pick.

I don't think he nominate a White man to replace Mashall. aAlso Clinton had two opportunities to nominate Tribe and he failed to do so.
 
No, it's a running joke that Paul McNutt has almost never *not* ended a TL with Obama winning 2008, even when it's otherwise implausible.

Holy shit, Braun's from my county? I feel embarassed now.
Dude, it's Chicago...
 
Edwards joins Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer in supporting Gore in Bush v Gore.

Which means that Gore possibly gets to nominate William Rehnquist's successor as Chief Justice. Sandra Day O'Connor probably doesn't retire, at least in Gore's first term. Maybe John Paul Stevens is moved to resign, during Gore's term. A possible nomination for Chief Justice would be Gilbert S. Merritt, a family friend of Gore's, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and former United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. As a moderate, Gore is more likely to get some Republicans behind the nomination, as it will not radically change the politics of the court. The main problem for his nomination (other than accusations of cronyism) would be that the Simon Wiesanthal Center had been critical of his handling of John Demjanjuk's extradition, but given that Demjanjuk had been acquitted since (and subsequently tried again, and stripped of US citizenship again by Merritt's court), this should be far less of an issue in 2005.
 
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