
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, June 14, 1993                   TAG: 9306140283
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

D.C. JUDGE ADDED AS COURT CANDIDATE

President Clinton planned an announcement today of his choice for associate justice of the Supreme Court as the circle of leading candidates widened, according to sources familiar with the search.

Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the District of Columbia Circuit Court is under consideration along with federal Appeals Court Judge Stephen Breyer of Boston and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.

Ginsburg, 60, was appointed by then-President Carter in 1980. She has generally played a centrist role between fellow Carter appointees and those named by Presidents Reagan and Bush.

Sources said the White House conducted intensive background checks this weekend on Ginsburg.

Administration officials gathered Sunday night for another session in the three-month search to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Justice Byron White.

Breyer remained in the Washington area Sunday night. Clinton earlier in the day signaled that he remained under consideration despite news reports that he had failed to pay Social Security taxes for a part-time cleaning woman.

Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, and Minority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., among other congressional leaders, on Sunday praised Breyer.

Breyer, the former chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, has paid 13 years of back taxes for the worker, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is now 81. He said he had not thought he had a legal obligation to pay Social Security for her because she was already of retirement age when she began working for him.

by CNB