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]

heads up ping

[Cboldt]

I think the choice came to “Kagan or Wood?”

[SE Mom]

I’m thinking Wood- but so far no hints that I can find.

[justlurking]

I confess: it’s me.

[Jim Noble]

Maybe it’s Bork? He’s not doing anything right now.

[NonValueAdded]

The Obama administration is like NASCAR: nothing but left turns.

[Jim Noble]

Maybe it’s Mark Levin? He writes well.

[mwl8787]

Regardless of who he chooses, I see this rash decision as possibly blowing up in their faces, given their track record of vetting cabinet officers.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Bill Ayers?

[SE Mom]

BWWWWAHAHAHAHHAHHAAAA!!!

He’d be my choice ;)

[Sacajaweau]

Will he use the word “empathy”???...

[hoosiermama]

What no leaks! I suspected we would hear something from the inside by now.

[Zakeet]

It had better be me!

[SE Mom]

There are some excellent posts found here on the current frontrunners:

http://bench.nationalreview.com/

[Miss Didi]

Karl Rove is suspicious...he is questioning the timing. Too quick...not enough vetting, according to Karl.

[SE Mom]

They finally put the story up on FOX- they announced it around 8 but didn’t have the story up yet.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/26/obama-announce-supreme-court-nominee-tuesday-morning/

[unixfox]

Which tax cheat will it be this time?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I did a google search and some feminist page that seemed ticked they were not MORE LIBERAL... says this...

Sonia Sotomayor of New York, Diane P. Wood of Chicago, Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. All of the women are said to be liberal. Diane Wood appears to be the most liberal and she's from Chicago

I cannot believe Janet Napolitano made the final 4 short list. She is a screw up AG!

I have a feeling the choice will be Diane Wood.

[Carley]

Democrat Senator Nelson said he will NOT vote to confirm an activist judge.

[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.

[Cboldt]

Foxnews confirms that pick. Sotomayor.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

All are very liberal activists. Wood or Janet will be his choice to stab us in the back. Remember... he blocked Bushes nom but he has ordered his choice in pass hearings quickly (July).

[TomGuy]

FoxNews Alert confirms it to be Sonia Sotomayor

[DogBarkTree]

SOTOMAYOR! Great/ Legislate from the bench why dontcha, puta.

[popdonnelly]

Given the left-wing activism of this President, the pick is bound to be a bad one.

[SE Mom]

I swear Bah- not a DAY goes by that he’s not on tv.

Looks like Sotomayor is the one..

[tiredoflaundry]

The Judge on Fox says this was the most liberal pick *O* could have made.

[MrB]

Lev 19:15
‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

Notice nothing about “empathy”.

[TomGuy]

FoxNews

Judge Napolitano says Sotomayer is the most liberal of the 8 prospects.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

How is it leaked so quick did Rahm leak it? They are so tacky...