This story was originally published on our pre-election October 2008 issue. The Supreme Court is always a campaign focus. But the next president's most important effect on the legal system may involve the ideology, race and gender of his relatively anonymous appointees to the federal appellate courts. The stakes in the election, for the Supreme Court and all who live by its rulings, are very, very high." Or so writes The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin. Mr. Toobin is in good company with this pronouncement. The economy has its ups and downs; security threats may come and go; but as far as ... Read More