LIVE THREAD- Obama annouces SCOTUS pick (Sotomayor) at 10 AM

FOX NEWS ^ | 26 May 2009

[SE Mom]

Breaking on FOX- the president will announce SCOTUS pick around 10 am eastern.

[SE Mom]

No kidding- we all know how well his vetting of Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson and countless others has gone...

[Dan Nunn]

Since when does Obama care about vetting any of his nominees? As long as they filled out the 63 item job application, they're set.

[Carley]

He must distract us from the NK nukes.

[Miss Didi]

He must distract us from the NK nukes.

And right before he starts his whirlwind apology tour of Europe.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

That morning show with Matt Lauer inadvertantly HINTED Wood was just interviewed in the last week. So who knows???

[GOPJ]

Seems liberals can only empathize with homeless, ghetto dwellers, gays, union members, teachers, liberal elites and other dem voter groups.

In short, Obama wants a liberal who will bend toward liberal groups. Why doesn't he just say it?

Liberals NEVER put themselves in my shoes.

They NEVER empathize with me or people who think differently than they do.

Guess I'll follow their lead and try to "empathize" with gun owners, traditional family people, and those against abortion... Hey, it's not that hard to "empathize" with your own groups! (Liberals are so full of it they're eyes are brown...)

[huldah1776]

You brought me to tears.

[GOPJ]

Seems liberals can only empathize with homeless, ghetto dwellers, gays, union members, teachers, liberal elites and other dem voter groups.

In short, Obama wants a liberal who will bend toward liberal groups. Why doesn't he just say it?

Liberals NEVER put themselves in my shoes.

They NEVER empathize with me or people who think differently than they do.

Guess I'll follow their lead and try to "empathize" with gun owners, traditional family people, and those against abortion... Hey, it's not that hard to "empathize" with your own groups! (Liberals are so full of it they're eyes are brown...)

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Who will be shocked if the emptysuit picks Janet Napolitano?

[McGruff]

Gee. I hope this doesn’t interfere with his golf game.

[Guenevere]

Senator Nelson of Florida ?

I would say 'when did he grow a conscience'....

..but nah....he'll be flipped, he always is.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

The Fox headline is now saying 10:15 AM EST.

[Dan Nunn]

Great URL. Specifically this:

From Ed Whelan's article about Diane Wood:

• Wood is clearly ready to invent a constitutional right to same-sex marriage: “The right not to have the State prescribe a set of acceptable spouses, in the absence of the kind of powerful reason it would have for incest laws or laws designed to protect children, is implicit in the concept of liberty.” (Wood, “Reflections on the Judicial Oath” (8 Green Bag 2d 177, 184 (2005).)
• Wood evidently believes that the inclusion of “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance violates the Establishment Clause and that a Supreme Court ruling permitting that phrase would “announce that the United States is a nation that has adopted monotheism as its official state dogma.” (See my Part 5 post, point 3 here.)
• Wood believes that it’s proper for the Supreme Court to revise the meaning of constitutional provisions to reflect contemporary international and foreign practices. (See my Part 5 post, point 2.) As Harold Koh’s transnationalism shows, that approach threatens cherished First Amendment rights of free speech and religion at the same time that it leads to the invention of new rights that entrench the agenda of international leftist elites.
• No judge whom I’m aware of is more extreme than Wood on abortion. Her defiance of the Supreme Court’s mandate in NOW v. Scheidler (and her incurring successive 8-1 and 8-0 reversals by the Court) ought alone to be disqualifying. In addition, Wood has (in dissent) voted to strike down state laws banning partial-birth abortion and (again in dissent) voted to strike down an Indiana informed-consent law that was in all material respects identical to the law upheld by the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Let's hope it's not this extremist.

[SE Mom]

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/the-dynamic-of-the-nomination-of-sonia-sotomayor/

SCOTUS Blog is tending toward Sotomayor at the moment...

[Jess Kitting]

Which one will he pick?

[Cboldt]

SCOTUSblog did a good set on Sotomayor. E.g., Judge Sotomayor's Civil Opinions - Part IV.

Nominee Analysis: Judge Diane Wood | SCOTUSblog

[hoosiermama]

WOnder if Wood is being “vetted” by Fitzpatrick......seeing she is from Chicago and the judge have a history of corruption/conviction there.

[ziravan]

CNBC says AP is saying it’s Sotamayor

[Lurking in Kansas]

LOL... and we have!

[Bahbah]

Hah! What’s the hurry?

Maybe it’s just his desire to be constantly on tv.