[Vision2020] Obama to Name Sotomayor as Supreme Court Pick

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of CNN at:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/26/supreme.court/index.html

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Obama to name Sotomayor as Supreme Court pick

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama has chosen federal Judge Sonia
Sotomayor as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, two sources told CNN
on Tuesday.

Obama plans to announce his nominee at 10:15 a.m. ET Tuesday, sources told
CNN.

Obama said Saturday he wants intellectual firepower and a common touch in
the next Supreme Court justice and said he doesn't "feel weighed down by
having to choose ... based on demographics."

Obama's nominee will replace retiring Justice David Souter, who announced
this month he would step down when the court's current session ends this
summer.

There had been wide speculation that Obama would name a woman to the
court, which has one female justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Obama also had been under pressure to nominate a Hispanic justice to the
court, which has never had one.

Obama's nomination will have to be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary
Committee and the full Senate.

The nominee is not expected to have difficulty being confirmed in the
Democratic-controlled Senate in time for the new court session in October.

The president has said he hopes to have hearings in July, with the
confirmation completed before Congress leaves for the summer.

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Sonia Sotomayer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor

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Sonia Sotomayer is an independent, liberal woman; kinda like a textbook
violation of the right-wing three-strike policy.

And she is only 55 years of age.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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