[Vision2020] Obama to Name Sotomayor as Supreme Court Pick

[keely emerinemix]

Sounds like a good pick.  I just hope people pronounce her name correctly -- it's "So-to-
my-YOR," not "SoTOmador," as I've already heard.  

Perhaps the Right will amend it to "SaDAMador," or will they go straight to "Baby Killer"?  And I imagine there will be enormous outcry that she's a Latina; after all, there have been so few Anglo men on the court throughout history . . .

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/




> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:54:23 -0700
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Obama to Name Sotomayor as Supreme Court Pick
> 
> 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
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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