President Obama to announce Supreme Court pick at 9:15am

[JoeChalupa]

Will it be a woman? I think it very well could be.

A moderate or a more progressive pick? I'm going with Fed Judges Sonia Sotomayor or Diane Wood.

[JoeChalupa]

Looks like Sonia Sotomayor will be the pick as it is being reported by AP and I just heard it on Morning Joe.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

this should be fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-qUvI6WFo

[LnGrrrR]

No matter who it is, the person is going to get ripped by the Republicans who will make a big show of it, and then the Dems will get him/her passed anyways.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

hispanic?
latino. yes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZmHACG6LdM

[JoeChalupa]

No matter who it is, the person is going to get ripped by the Republicans who will make a big show of it, and then the Dems will get him/her passed anyways.

I think if Republicans want to make any gains with Hispanics they won't attack so harshly but we'll have to wait and see.

[JoeChalupa]

hispanic?
latino. yes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZmHACG6LdM

[Rogue]

I wish the nominee would be Halle Berry, though that seems a little bit far from realism considering Obama's prejudice on the black people, even though Halle Berry is only half black just like Obama himself.

[FaithInOne]

I think if Republicans want to make any gains with Hispanics they won't attack so harshly but we'll have to wait and see.

I remember how eloquently C. Thomas was treated by the left

Too bad republicans haven't attempted to make an entire race dependent on the government

[George Gervin's Afro]

It's a good day when Fox News and the resident conservatives are in a tizzy..! Great job President Obama!

[JoeChalupa]

I remember how eloquently C. Thomas was treated by the left

Too bad republicans haven't attempted to make an entire race dependent on the government

They didn't have the votes to block Clarence Thomas just as republicans don't have them to block this one.

[RobinsontoDuncan]

Clarence Thomas liked pubic hair in his coke cans, what can you say to that?

[doobs]

No matter who it is, the person is going to get ripped by the Republicans who will make a big show of it, and then the Dems will get him/her passed anyways.

Have the Republicans ever done that to a Supreme Court nominee?

[Extra Stout]

She was a frontrunner for the pick, yet Republicans don't seem to have a lot of attacks ready. It's as if they were more concerned about the other candidates, which makes me think she was the safe pick for Obama.

In a day or two she of course will have been thoroughly vilified as an extremist, but based upon the initial response, my guess is that she gets confirmed fairly easily.

[George Gervin's Afro]

She was a frontrunner for the pick, yet Republicans don't seem to have a lot of attacks ready. It's as if they were more concerned about the other candidates, which makes me think she was the safe pick for Obama.

In a day or two she of course will have been thoroughly vilified as an extremist, but based upon the initial response, my guess is that she gets confirmed fairly easily.

I have a prediction folks..the right wing will call her a radical.. mark my words folks..

[Extra Stout]

I have a prediction folks..the right wing will call her a radical.. mark my words folks..

It is the job of the opposition to oppose...

[Wild Cobra]

No matter who it is, the person is going to get ripped by the Republicans who will make a big show of it, and then the Dems will get him/her passed anyways.

probably so, because President Obama will likeliy pick someone who wants to make policy...

Funny, didn't she acknowledge that is what happens? See the first YOUTUBE clip?

Yes, the republicans will rip her, for that reason, if not others.

I think if Republicans want to make any gains with Hispanics they won't attack so harshly but we'll have to wait and see.

Why are you making this an issue of racism? You a racist?

[JoeChalupa]

probably so, because President Obama will likeliy pick someone who wants to make policy...

Funny, didn't she acknowledge that is what happens? See the first YOUTUBE clip?

Yes, the republicans will rip her, for that reason, if not others.

Why are you making this an issue of racism? You a racist?

Racism? My point is that republicans lost some of the gains they had made under Bush with the Hispanic vote during the last election. It is politics is what I'm saying. She'll be confirmed.

[LnGrrrR]

Have the Republicans ever done that to a Supreme Court nominee?

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any to be honest. Most of the examples are of Democratic obstruction. It's probably happened.

My opinion/assessment is based on the fact that Republicans have tended to obstruct Dems over the past two years when they held Congress, and that the Right-Wing was up in arms about blocking any slightly liberal candidate before he/she was even picked.

[LnGrrrR]

probably so, because President Obama will likeliy pick someone who wants to make policy...

Funny, didn't she acknowledge that is what happens? See the first YOUTUBE clip?

Yes, the republicans will rip her, for that reason, if not others.

Were you aware of the context behind the statement?

http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2009...-clowning.html

Please read/skim and then tell me if you think she was in the wrong.

[George Gervin's Afro]

were you aware of the context behind the statement?

http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2009...-clowning.html

please read/skim and then tell me if you think she was in the wrong.

+1

[Wild Cobra]

Were you aware of the context behind the statement?

http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2009...-clowning.html

Please read/skim and then tell me if you think she was in the wrong.

I say she's wrong. It should not be a lower courts job to make a decision based differently than the supreme court will base it on.

[ChumpDumper]

I say she's wrong. It should not be a lower courts job to make a decision based differently than the supreme court will base it on.

Until the higher courts actually make a decision, that is a distinct possibility since the scope of the lower courts decisions is much more narrow.

[Wild Cobra]

Until the higher courts actually make a decision, that is a distinct possibility since the scope of the lower courts decisions is much more narrow.

It should still be based on law. Not activism.

[ChumpDumper]

It should still be based on law. Not activism.

Buzzword!

Seriously, you just want your kind of activism in the court.

If you are really serious about that kind of crap, you would be calling for a different system of law.