{"id":5011,"date":"2010-04-05T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:45:13","slug":"pondering-stevens-scotus-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/05\/pondering-stevens-scotus-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pondering Stevens&#8217; SCOTUS exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5023\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/John-Paul-Stevens2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Paul Stevens\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The White House is reportedly\u00a0considering \u00a0<a title=\"possible candidates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=aoVkSIx0fhig\" target=\"_blank\">possible\u00a0candidates <\/a>to nominate for the Supreme Court seat which may soon be vacated by 89-year-0ld Justice John Paul Stevens.\u00a0\u00a0 Political Science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson <\/a>says political reality dictates that the ability of the GOP minority in the Senate to delay or block nominations must be taken into serious consideration.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Obama might need to nominate a candidate with a safer record and someone where opposition to them would seem to display political animus against the group \u2013 women, Hispanics, African Americans \u2013 from which they come.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is reportedly\u00a0considering \u00a0possible\u00a0candidates to nominate for the Supreme Court seat which may soon be vacated by 89-year-0ld Justice John Paul Stevens.\u00a0\u00a0 Political Science Professor Graham Wilson says political reality dictates that the ability of the GOP minority in the Senate to delay or block nominations must be taken into serious consideration. &#8220;Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2623,2624,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/7807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}