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cbsnews.com - 5/24/2009
Obama's Vision Of Supreme Court Pick Clear
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On the verge of choosing his first Supreme Court nominee, President Obama has already provided a profile of the person he is likely to pick: an intellectual heavyweight with a "common touch."
reason.com - 5/21/2009
Replacing Justice Souter
— reason.com — With Supreme Court Justice David Souter set to retire next month at the end of the Court's... current term, President Barack Obama faces one of the most important decisions of his tenure. Reason.com asked a panel of leading legal scholars and ... (more) Replacing Justice Souter

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content.usatoday.com - 5/28/2009
Obama's Day: Viva Las Vegas
— content.usatoday.com — Good morning from The Oval. It's Day 128 of the Obama presidency, and the president will spend... most of it in Las Vegas. And who can consider Sin City without thinking of a certain Elvis Presley movie and song: "A... (more) Obama's Day: Viva Las Vegas

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CAFE, Part Two
baselinescenario.com - 5/21/2009
CAFE, Part Two
— baselinescenario.com — In the same post I discussed yesterday, Keith Hennessey cites the same NHTSA report – the Final... Rule governing CAFE standards for model years 2011-15, issued in January 2008 – to make this point: “The proposal will have a trivial effect on global climate change.” ... (more) CAFE, Part Two

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Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Supreme Court Nominee
cato-at-liberty.org 5/26/2009 — In nominating Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, President Obama chose the most radical of all the frequently mentioned candidates before him. Given the way she recently all but dismissed the Ricci case –- involving the ...
Daily Sprout — Earth2Tech
Supreme Court Pick’s Track Record: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion in Riverkeeper vs. EPA, siding with the fishes and against power companies in a big case that the Supreme Court just overturned. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital The State of State ...
Prediction markets have failed at forecasting correctly an important event —*once again*. — Midas Oracle .ORG
LAT: Sonia Sotomayor is Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Via our good friend Daniel Horowitz Previously : Prediction markets failed miserably at forecasting accurately the American Idol winner. ---------- Midas Oracle .ORG = Archives + Best + Probabilistic Predictions + ...
Dumb and Obnoxious Ivy League Summa Graduates for Sonia Sotomayor — J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles
Amanda Terkel: Think Progress: Conservatives Blast Obama’s Hispanic SCOTUS Nominee As ‘Not The Smartest’ And An ‘Intellectual Lightweight’ : When the media began floating Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a possible Supreme Court nominee... Jeffrey ...
Obama’s Sotomayor Nomination: Identity Politics over Merit — Cato @ Liberty
In picking Sonia Sotomayor , President Obama has confirmed that identity politics matter to him more than merit. Judge Sotomayor is not one of the leading lights of the federal judiciary and would not even have been on the shortlist if she were not Hispanic. She has a mixed reputation, with ...
Symposium: “Replacing Justice Souter” — Overlawyered
I’m one of the participants in an online symposium at Reason on who can, should or will serve as President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. I have kind words for Walter Dellinger III, mixed views on “empathy”, and predict that the current surge of activist federal economic ...
Supreme Court Nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor and Corporate and Securities Law — TRUTH ON THE MARKET
I have been asked a few times today to opine, as a corporate and securities law scholar, on President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. (Cnn.com has a couple of quotes reflecting my thoughts.) I have three main comments: First, this is a pivotal time in ...
High Court Nominee Not From 'Shadow of Yankee Stadium' — gary-weiss.com
The route from Yankee Stadium (A) to Bronxdale Houses (B) I'm sure that all sons and daughters of the Bronx, such as myself, are delighted to hear that Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated to the Supreme Court. What's not so delightful is how news reports continue to screw up ...
Roadblocks Await Supreme Court Nominees — Breaking News: CBS News
The path to the Supreme Court is littered with obstacles that can trip up even the most politically nimble nominee. Some of President Barack Obama's possible picks may stumble on their own words.
Football Justice and Supreme Court Justice — CARPE DIEM
President Obama's articulated criteria for his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court is: "We need somebody who's got the heart to recognize -- the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or ...
Right claws at Obama’s liberal court candidates — World News from Times Online
CONSERVATIVE attack groups are preparing to open a new round of America’s culture wars as President Barack Obama picks his first Supreme Court nominee. They believe they can weaken him by portraying his candidate as ultra-liberal and politically ...