Question: What specific standards will you use in selecting Supreme Court nominees? What are the most pressing issues the Court will deal with in the next 30 years, and how will they influence your choices? Will you put a Latino on the Supreme Court?
Submitted from Jennifer of Port Arthur, Texas through washingtonpost.com (10/29/00)
Answer from Al Gore:
The Supreme Court And The Constitution
There are some big choices at stake in this election.
The next president will appoint probably three and possibly even four justices to the Supreme Court. I will nominate justices who share my view of the Constitution as a living, breathing document that must be interpreted in light of the experiences facing each generation.
Specifically, I will appoint justices to the Court who interpret the Constitution in the tradition of Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan.
We need a Supreme Court that will protect a woman's right to choose and support the progress that we have made on civil rights.
While I do not think it would be appropriate to say whom, specifically, I would appoint, I do believe our nation is strong, not in spite of its diversity, but because of it.
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