Who will replace Souter on the Supreme Court?

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Souter Reportedly Leaving

Looks like David Souter will be the first to retire during the first term of the Obama administration. Most people figured John Paul Stevens might be first because of his age, 89.

So who do you think Obama will nominate?

I think his nominee will almost certainly be a woman. In fact, I would say the odds are at least 10-1 that it will be a woman. And there's a very good chance that it will be a minority, probably Hispanic. Or maybe Asian-American?

I hope he finds a 40-year-old screaming liberal female Hispanic civil-rights attorney.

And she should be a confirmed bachelor like Souter.

Maybe a general counsel for the ACLU like Ruth Bader Ginsburg was? Or how about an attorney for the National Organization for Women?

Maybe he can find a 40-something, female, liberal, Hispanic attorney who is involved in immigration law?
I just hope it's someone who will make the Goppies go bananas. Give them something to rant and rave about.

It better not be somebody like Diane Feinstein. She's too unpredictable and she's 75 years old.

I wonder if ACORN has any women attorneys who might be interested?

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And the nomination goes to:

So who do you think Obama will nominate?

I think he will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who was first appointed to the federal bench by George H. W. Bush.

I think his nominee will almost certainly be a woman. In fact, I would say the odds are at least 10-1 that it will be a woman.

Right.

And there's a very good chance that it will be a minority, probably Hispanic.

Right.

Maybe he can find a 40-something, female, liberal, Hispanic attorney who is involved in immigration law?

She's 54, which is good enough. If she stays healthy, she could out-live Chief Justice John Roberts.

I just hope it's someone who will make the Goppies go bananas. Give them something to rant and rave about.

She will definitely give them something new to talk about besides arguing over whether Colin Powell is a real Republican or not. The Chunky Junkie will definitely go bananas. He hates women. He hates people of Puerto Rican descent. He hates anyone he considers to be a liberal. She will be a three-fer.

The Goppies have already done their opposition research on all of the women who were reported to be on Obama's short list of potential nominees, so it won't be long now before we start hearing all of Judge Sotomayor's "liberal" quotations taken out of context.

It better not be somebody like Diane Feinstein. She's too unpredictable and she's 75 years old.

She's not like Feinstein (who is too much like Susan Collins) and she's 21 years younger.


Let the games begin.



P.S. -- She will be confirmed but the Goppies will definitely freak out just to show they're still somehow relevant. Actually they're not but let's let them think they are just to be nice to them for a change. Hopefully we can get lots of nice video of conservative, white, male Republicans on the Judiciary Committee giving Sotomayor a rough time during confirmation hearings. Hopefully CNN and FOX will run those clips over and over again -- FOX because they're the official network of the RNC and CNN because they want to be just like FOX.

Sotomayor will be confirmed easily but it would be great if we could get as many Goppies as possible threatening to filibuster her nomination. Let's see how many of them are dumb enough to fall into this trap.

P.P.S. -- She a Catholic, which means the court will soon have six Catholics. No doubt she and Scalia will have different views on the proper influence of the Catholic religion on public policy.

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Feelings, nothing more than feelings...

Mike Huckabee has tears rolling down his face. The Huckster is extremely upset that half-Muslim commie pinko liberal Barack Obama has nominated someone from the "far left" who will base her opinions on nothing more than "feelings," leaving us with an "Extreme Court."

Hey, Huckster, lots of luck with the Hispanic vote the next time you run for something.

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Obama tells us why Sonia Sotomayor is not Harriet Miers.

Commie pinko liberal President Barack Obama tells us how great Sonia Sotomayor is and why she will make an excellent Supreme Court justice because she has feelings and empathy and all that good stuff. Oh, and she graduated second in her class at Princeton. That alone would disqualify her in Republican circles.

And now that he has the nomination thing out of the way, our half-Muslim president can work on his pro-Arab cred.

Saudi Arabia and Egypt

Barack Obama will be visiting all his Muslim relatives next week. He will make a quick stop in Riyadh to visit King Abdullah before going on to Cairo, where he will deliver another of his "Hey, I'm a Muslim, too" speeches. I forgot to say Saudi King Abdullah, not Jordan's King Abdullah. Too many King Abdullahs over there.

Oh, and he will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the White House day after tomorrow. You might remember that he met with Bibi Netanyahu in the White House last week. Bibi is being a big PITA, as usual. Obama said, "Settlements have to be stopped." As soon as Bibi got back to Israel, he promptly said they have no intention of stopping settlements.

After touring the Arab world, Obama heads to Germany with stops in Dresden and at Buchenwald. No word on whether he will lay a wreath at an SS cemetery like St. Ronnie of Reagan did, at the urging of well known Goppie neo-Nazi Pat Buchanan. I doubt that Obama will be referring to the SS as "victims, too."

And then it's on to France, where he will participate in D-Day commeration ceremonies and remind us all again that his maternal grandfather helped liberate France during WWII. And Rush Limbaugh will tell his audience once again that Obama's grandfather was nowhere near Buchenwald. That's assuming he still has his voice left after ranting and raving non-stop about Sotomayor.

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Empathy!

The Goppies are really going bananas over this idea that a Supreme Court nominee should be allowed to have empathy. They are really freaking out over the empathy thing.

According to the screeching wingnuts, no one with empathy should be allowed on the Supreme Court, period. End of discussion.

Here's what Obama said when he announced that Justice David Souter had informed him of his intention to retire from the Court:

"Now, the process of selecting someone to replace Justice Souter is among my most serious responsibilities as President. So I will seek somebody with a sharp and independent mind and a record of excellence and integrity. I will seek someone who understands that justice isn't about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people's lives -- whether they can make a living and care for their families; whether they feel safe in their homes and welcome in their own nation.

"I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving as just decisions and outcomes. I will seek somebody who is dedicated to the rule of law, who honors our constitutional traditions, who respects the integrity of the judicial process and the appropriate limits of the judicial role. I will seek somebody who shares my respect for constitutional values on which this nation was founded, and who brings a thoughtful understanding of how to apply them in our time."

Only a commie pinko liberal, who is quite possibly half-Muslim, would talk about empathy at a time like this. How un-American!

What we need on the court is another intellectual giant, like say Justice Clarence Thomas, who doesn't have a single drop of empathy in his body.

Let's see what President George H. W. Bush had to say about Judge Thomas when he announced that he was nominating him for the Court.

"After graduation from Yale Law School, he worked for then Missouri attorney general John Danforth, and spent 2 1/2 years litigating cases of all descriptions. In 1977, Judge Thomas practiced law in the private sector, and in 1979, he rejoined Senator Danforth as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. In 1981, President Reagan appointed him Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education. From 1982 to 1990, he served as President Reagan's Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. And I appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1990.

"I have followed this man's career for some time, and he has excelled in everything that he has attempted. He is a delightful and warm, intelligent person who has great empathy and a wonderful sense of humor. He's also a fiercely independent thinker with an excellent legal mind, who believes passionately in equal opportunity for all Americans. He will approach the cases that come before the Court with a commitment to deciding them fairly, as the facts and the law require.

"Judge Thomas' life is a model for all Americans, and he's earned the right to sit on this nation's highest Court. And I am very proud, indeed, to nominate him for this position, and I trust that the Senate will confirm this able man promptly."

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"When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions we rightly have been criticized, so as we move forward I think it’s important to again live our values, to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those," Gen. David Petraeus said on Fox News Friday afternoon, May 29, 2009, in response to a question about enhanced interrogations.

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Your Weekly Address

President Obama tells us why Judge Sonia Sotomayor will make an outstanding Supreme Court Justice.