Bush Could Soon Name Rehnquist Successor

NPR | By Nina Totenberg

Published November 3, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

President Bush will fill any Supreme Court vacancies in his second term, and it appears that he will at least be naming a successor to ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Hear NPR's Nina Totenberg.

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