Poll: Americans prefer 'moderate' or conservative justice
By Michael O'Brien -
Most Americans would prefer to see President Barack Obama name a "moderate" or conservative justice to the Supreme Court, a new poll shows.
37 percent of adult Americans say they would like to see Obama nominate what they consider to be a "moderate" jurist to the high court, while 36 percent would like to see a somewhat or very conservative appointee.
25 percent of adults would like to see a somewhat or very liberal justice replaced to fill the vacancy to be left by the retiring liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Tuesday.
The poll comes as the president has begun reaching out to candidates informally to succeed Stevens, who announced that he will retire at the end of the court's current term in June.
While the president is expected to nominate a left-leaning appointee to fill Stevens's spot, Republicans have still warned that they may filibuster any nominee if he or she falls outside what the GOP defines as "mainstream."
Americans' preference for a new justice roughly mirror their preferences a year ago, when Obama named now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor to fill the retiring Justice David Souter's seat.
The CNN poll, conducted April 9-11, has a three percent margin of error.
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