Posted on 05/26/2009 5:44:29 AM PDT by reaganaut1
President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court, officials said Tuesday, and has scheduled an announcement for 10:15 a.m. at the White House.
If confirmed by the Democratic-controlled Senate, Judge Sotomayor, 54, would replace Justice David H. Souter to become the second woman on the court and only the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court. She also would be the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
The president reached his decision over the long Memorial Day weekend, aides said, but it was not disclosed until Tuesday morning when he informed his advisers of his choice less than three hours before the announcement was scheduled to take place.
The president narrowed his list to four, according to people close to the selection process, including Federal Appeals Judge Diane P. Wood of Chicago, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Solicitor General Elena Kagan.
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“That’s good. Mean’s a great court fight!”
I can’t see our lily-livered GOP senators putting up much of a fight.
It is going to take a long time for the women to catch up.
Sotomayor is an absolute liberal/socialist idealogue.
America gets what it voted for, and this undeniably underscores the betrayal of conservatism by the Rino loser non-campaign run by the elite last November.
The announcement by the Treasury that a CRISIS had to be fixed in DAYS has turned out to be a huge lie. That money STILL isn’t spent.
That means that a republican was intentionally derailed by someone on his own side.
They wanted an Obama win, and SCOTUS was one of the major reasons they wanted it.
Huge Betrayal!
Elections Have Consequences, and we will feel this one for years and years.
Guilty!
Clarence Thomas is the ONLY Judge who doesn't think they make the laws.
All of the Judges are legal postivists and think law is what THEY say it is.
when you read the media try to play her as a centrist or have nothing negative to say about her, or try to confince the republicans about the dangers of oppose her because she’s hispanic, as if opposing her will make hispanic angry.... then you know she an activist
Yes, but she's an Hispanic megalomaniac. That's all that counts.
We are hosed.
About half would be my prediction.
The question is, will the GOP fight her nomination or cave in front of this feel good story of the “first Hispanic woman to sit on the Supreme Court”?
On the plus side, if Obama keeps nominating the same kind of people then the back taxes they're forced to pay may almost cover the cost of his health care plans.
0bozo could have done a lot worse, imho.
Fox Business Channel just mentioned an opinion recently posted on a legal site, describing Sotomayor as having pro-corporate tendencies.
She’s originally a Bush-41 appointee.
i hope ppl aren’t using wiki as their research material ONLY. The left will be ready to write glowing reviews about her there
Every news channel is now locked on this story.
Watch the smoke and mirrors...something else bad is afoot!
Here’s what you’ll hear the next several days to provide cover for her leftwing record:
A Bush 41 appointment.
A Bush 41 appointment.
A Bush 41 appointment.
A Bush 41 appointment.
A Bush 41 appointment.
THe dems have the WH and the ability to appoint anyone they please.
Fighting it is futile in my opinion. Why would they do it?
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