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"How will Barack Obama impact the [U.S.] Supreme Court?"

So far, President Obama's impact on the U.S. Supreme Court has been a wash: when David Souter, a liberal, retired in 2009, President Obama picked Sonia Sotomayor, another liberal. Here is how the Supreme Court looks after his pick:

Justice	Born	Leans	Appointed	By President
John Paul Stevens	1920	Liberal	1975	Gerald Ford
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	1933	Liberal	1993	Bill Clinton
Antonin Scalia	1936	Conservative	1986	Ronald Reagan
Anthony Kennedy	1936	Swing	1988	Ronald Reagan
Stephen Breyer	1938	Liberal	1994	Bill Clinton
Clarence Thomas	1948	Conservative	1991	George H.W. Bush
Samuel Alito	1950	Conservative	2006	George W. Bush
John Roberts	1955	Conservative	2005	George W. Bush
Sonia Sotomayer	1954	Liberal	2009	Barack Obama

Five of the nine Justices are 71 to 90 years old. If Justices Scalia and Kennedy retire or die during the remainder of President Obama's term, they will be replaced with liberal appointees who will create a dominant 6:3 liberal majority capable of not only upholding Roe v Wade but also striking down the homosexual marriage bans now in effect in 29 states. If Justice Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer and/or Sotomayer retire or die instead, the status quo will hold.

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