Fact that probably fewer people know than you would think of the day.

I got an e-mail from an intellegent, politically interested woman at work this morning. The bottom of the e-mail was a forwarded alert from Fox News (yes, she's a Republican) that said "SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST HOSPITALIZED WITH THYROID CANCER," and above that, she had typed in, as a question to me, "Is Rehnquist Republican or Democrat?" Of course, judges are theoretically neither one party or another, but her question was clear, and it made me wonder: If given the name of the most well-known Supreme Court justices (Rehnquist, Ginsburg, Thomas, O'Connor, Scalia), could the average American pick whether they are largely known as conservative, moderate, or liberal?

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