List of Obama's Possible Picks for Supreme Court

Fox news ^ | May 01, 2009 | N/a

[Jet Jaguar]

President Obama is believed to have had a short list to replace Supreme Court Justices David Souter.

Elena Kagan.

Deval Patrick.

Ruben Castillo.

Margaret McKeown.

Diane Wood.

Pam Karlan.

Cass Sunstein.

[Ciexyz]

The speculation begins.

[fso301]

Well, at least we will be rid of that festering hemorrhoid Poppa Bush gave us.

[dila813]

No Farrakhan?

[Lawdoc]

I will go with Sunstein.

[Sir_Ed]

Cass Sunstein? God help us all...

Ed

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Now the highest court will become socialistic as well.

[Lawdoc]

“I will go with Sunstein.”

As his pick - not my choice tho.

[Big_Monkey]

Not a white man on the list, I believe.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

odd are on Deval Patrick. Obama owes him for handing over Axelrod to help him lie to the Oval Office.

[Big_Monkey]

"odd are on Deval Patrick. Obama owes him for handing over Axelrod to help him lie to the Oval Office.

Obama has described his relationship with Patrick as "close and personal". I wonder if that would give him any problems in the confirmation hearings, conflict of interest and all.

[krb]

Oooo Oooo pick me! Pick me!!!

[MAD-AS-HELL]

conflict of interest in DC? That doesn’t stop any of them...

[Dragonspirit]

Probably some fudge packer to make “historic history” or some other BS. At which point, Arlen Specter will demand temporary readmittance into the Republican party in order to dissent from it and vote for confirmation.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Work up a matrix, giving points for being a lesbian, an ACLU lawyer, an abortion provider attorney, and a marxist.

Whichever of the 5 candidates scores the highest score is sure to be the nominee.

[Callahan]

Isn’t Obama’s poster parasite Henrietta Hughes still looking for a job? I’m sure she’d appreciate the loose fitting robe and extended summer break.

[uncitizen]

Who’s this “Deval” Patrick?

[EQAndyBuzz]

Funniest thing is, whoever he picks, chances are Harriet Meyers probably has more experience.

[KTM rider]

I'm sure it will be someone highly qualified , just like all his other appointments have been

maybe it'll be :

Oprah Winfrey

Cornell West

Michael Moore

Bruce Springsteen

Rosie O'donnell

Barbara Striesand

Bill Ayers

Raile Odinga

[Big_Monkey]

He's the incredibly unpopular governor of Mass. He actually coined the phrase "just words, just speeches" which Obama lifted (plagiarized) to use in one of his own speeches.

Patrick and Obama (and Axelrod) are very close.

[wardaddy]

3 lefty Jewish gals...isn’t one enough

[SAJ]

Cass Sunstein? The dildo who has called for household pets to be ''liberated'', and to sue pet owners for ''abuse'' simply for owning them?

Yes, that fits with the Kenyan's ongoing campaign to destroy the nation, but I must assume you were not serious in thinking that this sorry bastard has or ever should have a place on USSC.

[SAJ]

Sunstein is, at least nominally, a white man.

His interior colouring is bright red, however.

[NYRepublican72]

The Rat African American Governor of Taxachusetts.

He’s pro-gay marriage and anti-death penalty. Grew up in the hood in the South Side of Chicago.

A perfect libtard for 0bama to appoint. Stands for everything we’re against for the most part.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deval_Patrick

[Jet Jaguar]

Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts.

Patrick was a United States Assistant Attorney General under President Bill Clinton, and before that he worked as an attorney and businessman. He was born and raised in Chicago.

Head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Dept under Clinton.

From Wiki:

His tenure was not without controversy. Federal affirmative action policy was under judicial and political review, and Patrick was thrust into Clinton's policy defense. Patrick also enforced federal laws concerning treatment of incarcerated criminals, to the extent that one warden called him a "zealot." [9] He has also been criticized for his role in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals case Piscataway v. Taxman, wherein, due to budget constraints, a white woman named Sharon Taxman was laid off rather than an African American woman of allegedly "identical" qualifications, because the school wanted diversity on its teaching staff. Taxman sued and prevailed in US District Court, but Patrick encouraged the Justice Department, which had supported Taxman in the Bush administration, to withdraw from the case. Taxman, who was subsequently rehired, eventually settled her suit.

[Lawdoc]

I wasn’t very clear in my post. I meant that he was the type of guy Obama would pick. Not that I thought he was qualified to be even the lowest type of judicial officer.

[Big_Monkey]

"His interior colouring is bright red, however.

Are you sure it's not blue on the inside? Plus, I saw "Cass" and immediately thought it was the singer from the Mamas and the Pappas.

[NYRepublican72]

Cass probably helped Zero get the job to indoctrinate U Chicago law students with his liberal interpretation of the Constitution.

Sunstein is a true socialist. Another perfect 0bama pick that we’d despise for years to come.

He’d probably make Souter, Stevens and Ginsberg look like a conservative in comparison.

[OrangeHoof]

Remember, the media and the pundits got three guesses on Bush’s nominees and were thoroughly wrong every time.

I’m betting it will be a minority but not a white woman. The white woman will come when Ginsburg leaves.

Say, you don’t suppose Obama will nominate the first openly homo justice, do you?

[woofie]

two good things about this guy :

1. He is black
2 He is familiar with the law

[OrangeHoof]

3-to-1 odds say the nominee will be a tax cheat...but that the Dems will say it doesn’t matter because this is “too important”.

[Centurion2000]

Bill Ayers .... Bill Clinton ... Louis Farrakhan

[Luke21]

“He’d probably make Souter, Stevens and Ginsberg look like a conservative in comparison.”

Lenin himself couldn’t make those three maggots look conservative.

[Jet Jaguar]

I thought Souter was open...

Nevermind.

[Southack]

0bama wanted to pick the CNN doctor for Surgeon General.

Likewise, he’ll go with a famous/TV lawyer/Judge for SCOTUS.

[SAJ]

Sunstein, while he might well be a true socialist, is an absolutely 100% USDA-certified, Grade A, groundhog’s asshole.

[SAJ]

Nah, she died a couple of decades ago, more's the pity.

Cass Sunstein is arguably the largest vermin imitating a human in the US.

[Big_Monkey]

"Likewise, he’ll go with a famous/TV lawyer/Judge for SCOTUS.

Paula Abdul?

[SAJ]

Apols for not catching the (well-disguised, my comps!) sarcasm.

[NYRepublican72]

Likewise, he’ll go with a famous/TV lawyer/Judge for SCOTUS.

Since Johnny Cochrane is dead, does he go with Judge Judy instead?

[Kent C]

And extensive list at Wiki (with links to bios):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Supreme_Court_candidates

SCOTUS blog:

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/justice-souters-retirement-and-where-we-go-from-here/#more-9387

“The President will be personally invested and involved. I think it will come down to interviews between Wood, Kagan, Sotomayor, and two more out-of-the-box candidates, perhaps one with significant political experience and another who is a progressive visionary. And the President will decide personally based on his own very individual view of how he wants to shape the Court. There is no rush to make an announcement. The Term will conclude at the very end of June, and it makes no sense – and there is no pressure – to announce a choice for a successor before the Justice has completed this Term’s work.”

[dennisw]

Bush v. Gore

In 2000, Souter voted and dissented along with the three other justices in Bush vs. Gore to allow the presidential election recount to continue while the majority voted to end the recount based on the rule of law, making Bush the president.

Jeffrey Toobin wrote of Souter's reaction to Bush v. Gore in his 2007 book The Nine:

"Toughened, or coarsened, by the their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn’t. His whole life was being a judge. He came from a tradition where the independence of the judiciary was the foundation of the rule of law. And Souter believed Bush v. Gore mocked that tradition. His colleagues’ actions were so transparently, so crudely partisan that Souter thought he might not be able to serve with them anymore. Souter seriously considered resigning. For many months, it was not at all clear whether he would remain as a justice. That the Court met in a city he loathed made the decision even harder. At the urging of a handful of close friends, he decided to stay on, but his attitude toward the Court was never the same. There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept."^[12]

 

^{(from Wikipedia)}

 

[dennisw]

Mirror mirror on the wall who's the gayest 0bama of them all?

[Obamageddon]

Obama and Patrick were tapped together at Columbia by Brzezinski. They were acolytes together for him with the end game being the Presidency. Both of their political careers began there in 1981-82 . Zbig was running the Institute on Communist Affairs at Columbia.

Duval Patrick was Zbig’s spare Obama, just like Ruben Askew had been his spare Carter before.

[jws3sticks]

I think he should add Danika Patrick:

[luvbach1]

Ugh!

[cmj328]

Deval Patrick.

LOL.

[uncitizen]

OH he sounds just PERFECT!!!!

[Doc Savage]

1. Al Sharpton

2. Blagovich

3. Any Gitmo terrorist

4. Michelle the Ugly One

5. George Clooney

6. Britney Spears

7. Perez Hilton (by the way, don't you think it's way past time for someone to beat the S*** out this moron?)

8. Obama himself

9. Ohio politician who investigated Joe the Plumber

10. Anyone who would spit on Sarah Palin!

[william clark]

Limit the list to avowed homosexuals. Big O wants to put some sort of unique stamp on his appointment, so that’s about all he can pull out of his — er, hat. Speculation is that it will be a woman, so the odds probably favor a lesbian.