Obama’s Supreme Court Pick is Sonia Sotomayor or Diane Wood?
As the administration leadership team on the top-priority project began to emerge, one thing became obvious immediately: the key player will be Obama himself. The president made clear his intended level of involvement, taking upon himself the most mundane of administrative tasks – with Obama breaking the official news about Souter’s resignation by personally interrupting his own press secretary’s afternoon press conference. – from the Swamp
The front-runner to succeed Souter appears to be U.S. Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.
Sotomayor has an excellent record in legal terms, she is a woman, and she is Hispanic. Obama won his sweeping election victory on Nov. 4, 2008, with very strong support from the Hispanic community and from female activists. There is no judge of Hispanic background currently on the court, and the president has also made clear he would like to have another female judge.
Another possibility is Diane Wood, a federal judge in Chicago who was a colleague of Obama at the University of Chicago.
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But New York-born federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor tops nearly every list among legal experts, since she not only is reliably liberal like Souter but as a Puerto Rican would be the nation’s first Hispanic justice.
“History has shown that repeated Supreme Court short lists are much more reliable than vice presidential short lists,” said a top Democrat close to key Senate leaders, who agreed a liberal woman is a safe bet.
From – NYDailyNews
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I had the misfortune of appearing before Judge Sotomayor several years ago. I was bringing a discrimination case against a college, on strong grounds, but had no legal help. The judge ignored the solid evidence I presented, and threatened to make me pay legal expenses for the other side. She clearly did not care if a white man was discriminated against, and refused to hear the proofs. She is dedicated to leftist ideology, not to the law, and apparently is also an Anglo-hater. She will vote in FAVOR of anything that discriminates against whites. A racist in robes.