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The 109th Supreme Court justice of the United States will probably be David H. Souter.

He knows little about city problems. He lives all alone on a farm in New Hampshire.

He knows nothing about racial problems. He grew up knowing few blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Asians, Moslems.

He knows less than nothing about the problems of women. If you`re over 50 and have never been married, how much do you know about a 12-year-old girl in Detroit who is pregnant and scared?

He`s not my kind of guy. My guy will come up to the Senate not because someone whispered in the president`s ear. My guy, rich or poor, black or white, will have, word after word, earned his place on the Supreme Court.