President Obama advised not to replace David Souter with judge
BY James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Updated Monday, May 4th 2009, 7:28 AM
WASHINGTON -- Top Democrats advising President Obama on his first Supreme Court vacancy are urging him not to pick a sitting judge.
"I would like to see more people from outside the judicial monastery - somebody who has had some real-life experience," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) told ABC's "This Week."
Picking up on the outsider theme, brand-new Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania - who shepherded ex-President George W. Bush's two high court picks as the panel's former GOP chairman - agreed that the eight other justices on the bench who were lower court judges were plenty.
Specter told CBS' "Face the Nation" that he'd like a replacement for retiring Associate Justice David Souter "who has done something more than wear a black robe for most of their lives."
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