Rehnquist Said to Announce Retirement Friday Morning!

[nimue77]

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Received this moments ago from our friend Tony Trupiano of The Tony Show who received it himself via Email just moments after going off the air and thus was not able to run it. He tells The BRAD BLOG that he considers his source for this to be "golden"...

Just spoke to a Senate press secretary who said Republicans on the Judiciary Committee let them know that they should be prepared for Rehnquist to make a statement sometime between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. tomorrow morning and not to schedule anything during that time. Please be advised.


This report seems to synch up with a report just out at RAW STORY which independently confirms the "tomorrow between 10 and 11 am" timeline, as well as with Bob Novak's column this morning which reported that "Rehnquist also will announce his retirement before the week is over."

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Blogged by Brad on 7/7/2005 @ 4:07pm PT...
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[SamOdom]

The chief justice will 'retire' soon either by his own volition or something else. He is a very ill man.

 

[SamOdom]

Drudge is reporting it's so.

 

[D2bets]

Drudge is reporting it's so.

It may be so, but I wouldn't take Drudge's word for it.

 

[D2bets]

I think this would sort of put Bush ina tougher position in a way, depending on how he plays it. Dems may give him latitude on one pick, but if he tries to nominate two conservative ideologues to the bench then he will get a fight. I wonder if he'll nominate both at the same time or do one at a time. I would suspect one at a time and he'd try to get the more controversial one through first.

 

[nimue77]

I think rehnquist delayed the announcement because of the bombs in london.