21.   Federal judges are appointed for life.

22.   For that reason, said Marcus Hurn, professor of law at the Franklin Pierce Law School, Shaheen will be very careful to appoint judges with unimpeachable credentials.

23.   Forbes, by contrast, promised to appoint antiabortion judges and to select an antiabortion vice president.

24.   Giuliani said he wants to improve the judiciary by appointing better-qualified judges.

25.   He appoints the judges.

26.   He considers that as natural as a president appointing judges to the Supreme Court whose constitutional philosophy he shares.

27.   He appoints housing judges recommended to him by an advisory panel and a group of senior judges.

28.   He has declined to commit himself, if nominated, to picking an anti-abortion running mate or, if elected, to appointing anti-abortion judges.

29.   He has difficulty taking New York cases, he said, because he appointed so many judges.

30.   He has not had the courage to drop the rigid anti-abortion plank from the GOP platform or its declaration that only pro-choice judges be appointed.