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If Bush is elected, then Rhenquist retires and gets replaced with a fellow who thinks like Scalia. Not a big change.
On the other hand, it is not inconceivable that Stevens also retires or kicks that storied bucket, and also gets replaced with another of Cheney's duck hunting buddies. That would be a big change. Right now the court is 5 to 4 in favor of strict separation of church and state. Another 4 year of Bush and it may well break the other way, and we would end up with a 4 to 2 to 3 split between crypto-theocrats, those soft on the idea, and a couple of very outraged, very old, very wise people with soaring blood pressure wondering where the country they served got off to and who are the strange people they work with, and why does their left arm hurt so bad.
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