Bush’s Unprecedented Power?
Posted by Moonage on 04 Sep 2005 | Tagged as: The Legal Process
I can already hear the media pundits practically drooling all over themselves over the fact a second Supreme Court position is now open. People have talked about how Bush can now affect the course of the country for many years to come. A lot of people have questioned how many times in the past one President has gotten the opportunity to name more than one person to the Supreme Court. The anwer, was honestly quite surprising to me. Here are the years more than one Surpreme Court Judge has been appointed:
| Year | Appts | President |
| 1789 | 2 | Washington |
| 1790 | 4 | Washington |
| 1796 | 2 | Washington |
| 1800 | 2 | Adams |
| 1807 | 2 | Jefferson |
| 1830 | 2 | Jackson |
| 1836 | 2 | Jackson |
| 1837 | 2 | Van Buren |
| 1845 | 2 | Polk |
| 1862 | 3 | Lincoln |
| 1870 | 2 | Grant |
| 1882 | 2 | Arthur |
| 1888 | 2 | Cleveland |
| 1910 | 3 | Taft |
| 1916 | 2 | Wilson |
| 1923 | 2 | Coolidge |
| 1939 | 2 | Roosevelt, F. |
| 1941 | 2 | Roosevelt, F. |
| 1949 | 2 | Truman |
| 1962 | 2 | Kennedy |
| 1972 | 2 | Nixon |
The fact of the matter is, it is not the least bit unusual for a President to nominate more than one Supreme Court Justice in the same year. Franklin Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson did it twice, Washington did it three times. Think about that the next time you hear someone talking about George Bush’s unprecedented power.
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