Six Names Leaked As Obama's SCOTUS Nominees
Guess we'll have to sit tight and wait a while longer to find out for sure. Who do you like from this list, and why?
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is considering a list of more than six contenders for the Supreme Court that is dominated by women and Hispanics, one that includes judges and leaders from own his administration who have never donned a judicial robe.
Among those under consideration are Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Appeals Court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Pamela Wood. California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno is also under review by Obama.
Sources familiar with Obama's deliberations confirmed the names to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no candidates have been revealed by the White House. The confirmation amounts to the first time any name has been directly tied to Obama.
One official cautioned that Obama is considering other people who have not been publicly mentioned. And more names may be added as the administration considers a replacement for retiring Justice David Souter.
Fox Nation add on C&L? Seems odd.........
then FN giving it to their own.
he would now call an press conference and name Hillary Clinton. Then he would go back to working on his memoirs with whats her name.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Maybe I'm over-tired, but your comment was the biggest laugh I've had today.
I was distracted by Obamas Bushlike approach to torture, criminal conspiracies, foreign policy, and health insurance to care about his moderation in SCOTUS selections.
Off topic, unfounded(of course) and generally dumb.
Or maybe you'd like to let us in on where the war crimes trials are taking place? How about that 2.5% MAYBE cut in healthcare cost INCREASES? And maybe you'd also like to fill us in on how the illegal war in Iraq is winding down and the war in Afghanistan isn't be pushed into Pakistan and escalating? Tell us because we've been waiting years for the news!!!
...the Democrats shit! I can't believe the way you people keep biting the bait of distraction. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, the Democrats. Barely a word concerning Rumsfeld, Rice, Bush, et al. This is not how the criminal justice system normally works.
But there’s no dispute that on Feb. 4, 2003 — five months after Pelosi’s September meeting — CIA officials briefed Pelosi aide Michael Sheehy and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), then the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, on the specific techniques that had been used on Zubaydah — including waterboarding.
Harman was so alarmed by what she had heard, she drafted a short letter to the CIA’s general counsel to express “profound” concerns with the tactic — going so far as to ask if waterboarding had been personally “approved by the president.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/224...
Porter Goss, the House Intelligence Committee chairman in 2002 who went on to become director of the CIA has a different recollection. As he wrote in the Washington Post, he, Pelosi and the ranking Senate Intelligence Committee members were briefed extensively, "understood what the CIA was doing," and "gave the CIA our bipartisan support." Goss was "slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were actually to be employed."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/200...
As if Pelosi could have done anything to stop the Bush administration from engaging in criminality! Being briefed is not a crime. Get real.
If facts come out that support the notion that Pelosi was involved in formulating, advising, authorizing or carrying out illegal interrogations she should face the same consequences as others.
in criminal law being "briefed" can be and is prosecuted as a crime, ever heard of someone being charged with accomplice before/during/after the fact?
If the facts come out that Pelosi knew she could be charged as a accomplice, if she didn't attempt to stop it.
ETA and I never said she could stop it I was replying to L&L statement that Bush didn't tell the Dems shit.
But those meetings were classified.
Only Republicans are permitted to divulge classified info
for political gain.
...Pelosi asked for all of the briefings during that period to be released. Hardly the act of a guilty person. And thanks for the extremely partisan Porter Goss point of view.
To focus strictly on Pelosi regarding matters on torture while ignoring the actual perpetrators is a GOP concocted, bottom feeding diversion.
a larger question about the legality of the 'gang of four' mtgs, seems that bush broke (another) law:
It is unlawful for the executive branch to limit notification, as it did here, to the Gang of Four. There is no such entity recognized in the National Security Act. Federal law does provide, however, for notification of fewer lawmakers than the full intelligence committees, but only when “extraordinary circumstances affecting vital interests of the United States” are at stake. Under those very limited situations, the notification may be to the “Gang of Eight,” which includes the majority and minority leadership of the House and Senate, in addition to the intelligence committee leaders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/opinion/13d...
we'd have Dick Cheney to thank for getting the torture investigation ball rolling?
Know all of this... As much as I dislike Pelosi , She ask for the documents to be released..
Why in the h... is Obama kissing the a.. of Bush , Cheney , Rumsfeld, Rove and other republicans..
I know believe Obama will select a moderate republicans for the Supreme Judge..
Obama is full is it any more.. I wasted my time , money and vote on that two faced liar...
None
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Oddly enough, I live in Arizona and was born Michigan, so I can say with complete authority- they are the worstest candidates ever!
Harriet Meirs was just plain dumb and didn't hide it. But nothing can be worse -as we've already seen, than someone playing dumb just to get the job.
Either of those two Governors would be about as trustworthy and principled as Joe Lieberman.
AHHHHH!
A progressive latino woman who drives Conservatives psychotic.
Puerto Ricans as well as most Latino voters were solely responsible for the 4 state massacre to the same-sex marriage act.
They also are die-hard Catholics at heart.
If Roe or other fait-based issues ever appear again in a Roberts court, she may surface as another Kennedy instead of the civil rights minded Souter. And that would be a disaster.
That list reminds me of a recent joke.....
Did you hear about the new octo-slam at Denny's?
It has eight eggs, no sausage and everyone else in the restaurant has to pay for it.
... he nominates. The Gaggle of Obstructionist Pricks will bitch and moan no end.
Maybe Obama should hire Tom Delay to come in and do some "debugging" and extermination work for possible moles crawling around.
It appears the only thing that we changed was the names. Everything else is looking the same as Bush.
acronyms involving federal offices have to include letters for "of the"? Why not PUS for President and SCUS for Supreme Court. Aren't acronyms supposed to shorten things? Does is have to do with CUS?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
A no nonsense kick ass chick.
by the time the hearings are held.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I heard someone on tv say that Sotomayor is big into the separation of church and state. I would vote for her on that alone. The republicans are already planning to block whomever he names.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Sick and tired of the 'Christian nation' horseshit being peddled.
Let the Conservatives rail on Sotomayor. They'll wind up with single digit Latino support too.
I believe in separation of church and state as it is listed in the constitution. I don't agree with trying to force local government to remove crosses or the 10 commandment from courthouses.
1st Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
The constitution was written to be interpreted by the common man in simple terms. Which is why when people state that this or that person is a constitutional law scholar/professor amuses me a bit. We should all be constitutional scholars. No training needed beyond simple language skills. And perhaps a old copy of Blacks Law to understand the words as they were used back then.
All it states is that is that the Gov can't mandate religion. It doesn't say they can't favor one or the other, or use their beliefs in their duties. Just that they cannot infringe on your personal beliefs. ie Making everyone in the US join "x" church or making "y" church illegal.
Wrong.
"respecting" means 'in regards to' or 'making the appearance of'.
Quick and dirty version.
The establishment clause has generally been interpreted to prohibit 1) the establishment of a national religion by Congress, or 2) the preference of one religion over another or the support of a religious idea with no identifiable secular purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishment_Cl...
A better version with the original proposed amendment and the house and senate versions. Along with legal history of interpretations.
ETA Dang I forgot the link.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1a...
I like that he's leaving open the door to other unknown potentials. That way, all the rethugs have to start talking trash about every single, individual U.S. citizen.
That's change we can believe in.
If it isn't a secular progressive this country is fucking doomed.
Anyway during the primaries I didn't like Obama because he is an appeaser. Now it's crunch time.
Me, I'd nominate Eddie Tabash or Annie Gaylor.
I thought you were about to nominate Captain Crunch.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
With a name like that, he's got to have some fab abs.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
that it will take 101 Senate votes for any of them to be confirmed?
He wanted to get a head start.
I'm sure boosh thought that just meant Harry had a big head.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/336533075...
I'm kinda doubtful about her.
The State of AZ is home to out-of-control Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the worst public education system in the country.
Rush Limbaugh. Better not name anyone.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
is probably the only one that this Congress is likely to confirm.
I'm sure Reid would love to help push through Jay Bybees confirmation.
not everyone from Az. ids an idiot. Damn, I forgot about the Daly clip that ran yesterday. You could be right about most of them.
that it doesn't seem to me that she has done much here.
And a Democrat has to be a Republican to get anywhere in AZ.
I would love to have had a dynamic, fighting governor as leader in this state.
But I don't see that in Napolitano and we dearly need an "activist" judge to balance the scale.
The party leaders thought Howard Dean was 'too rambunctious'.
And never forget, thanks to our happy to appease Moderate Prez, Janet Napolitano threw her entire home state in the hands of a Right-wing Christian extremist whacko elevating John McCain back up in the Senate re-election polls he once only broke even in, without looking back once.
Now what earth shattering talent has she brought to her DHS job that demanded Az Democrats get so screwed?
Well I guess she did push Obama's homeland warning to "Wash your hands" rather well...
Lessee
There's Sleepy, Dopey, Sneezy, Grumpy, Doc, Randy, and Horny.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You cannot nominate twins!
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
they will be confirmed sometime after Al Franken gets seated.*
*never.
I've been in London a fortnight
Working on my tan.
What is the Franken status now?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
nothing has happened, except that Coleman seems aiming to take it to the SCROTUS
Didn't I read that the FBI is investigating Coleman for something? Not sure....just trying to get caught up these past few days after being out of touch a couple of weeks.
Yeah, although no one seems to know if Coleman is the focus of this particular investigation, or if it's just part of the wider case against his benefactor, Kazeminy.
It also came out recently that Coleman has asked to use campaign funds to pay for his defense in the criminal case. I'm waiting for his donors to raise a stink about that, but I'm not holding my breath...
For everything you ever wanted to know about the Franken-Coleman contest, go here:
www.TheUpTake.org
appealed the lower court ruling back to the Minnesota State Supreme Court. Oral arguments are set for June 1. Assuming they uphold the lower court, Team Coleman will then file an appeal to USSC.
You're an UpTaker, aren't you? I'm BrownEel over there. I knew there must be more of us posting here than just LibSec & me.
P.S. For those who don't know, TheUpTake.org is close to running out of $$$ - it'd be a damn shame if we lose them.
Yes, I'm an uptakian. They did a great job with covering the trial. I'm sorry to hear about the finacial problems..
I've been a daily C&L reader for a long time. You'll also find me at tpm, ab, rs & hp..
I've been in Kauai a fortnight, working on my Mai Tais.
As far as those SCOTUS nominees, pick a young progressive so she is on the bench a very long time.
She's young, intelligent, and looks just bitchin' in black.
That's what the Repubs will say first. And then the slashing will really start.
Sotomayor's recent vote on the majority opinion in the court of appeals?
Since she's a latina, I suspect she's also a Catholic...
Which disqualifies her automatically for me at this time...
mebbe if Roberts, or Alito, or Scalia, or Kennedy, or Unca Thomas (or all of 'em!) were suddenly to tragically perish, I'd be okay with a SINGLE replacement.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090508/cm_uc_crp...
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_arc...
Basically Frank Ricci a white man from Italy, quit his second job, spent around $1000 on text books and studied his ass off to pass the test for promotion. He came in 6th out of 70ish for 8 spots open. When no blacks passed the city through out the test and promoted no one.
whom St.Barry nominates.
None of them will be "liberal" in any meaningful way.
They'll be "centrists."
Unless he can figure out a way to put a majority of left-centrists in there, nothing changes...
I just hope he doesn't name any more fucking mackerel snappers. If is OUT-fuukin-RAGEOUS that a secular state should have a MAJORITY of Roman Catholics on its Supreme Court...
that's as certain as death and taxes.
or Metaphysics devotee for a change.
I am frankly tired of superstition, regardless of its persuasion....
and an acceptable one--Abrahamic, mostly--can be appointed or elected to any prominent office in this SECULAR nation.
It's fuukin disgraceful.
But it's not agonna change...
this seems more like testing the political-waters than a "leak"
still, apparently.
He's a real class act and he could make scalia shit himself with a glance.
So...there's that as well.
He's a real class act and he could make scalia sh*t himself with a glance.
So...there's that as well.
it's outlived it's usefulness.
how bout something exciting.
Interesting...
Funny how Obama feels that the next justice of the Supreme Court he will soon appoint "should be dedicated to the rule of law" and “who shares my respect for the constitutional values on which this nation was founded and who brings a thoughtful understanding of how to apply them in our time.”
Now, this is interesting to me because Obama refuses to prosecute Bush/Cheney War Criminals,CIA torturers...etc, even though this behaviour clearly violates US and International law. Obama is not a King, (or at least he isn't supposed to be) and is violating the laws of this country by helping these people avoid prosecution.
So, here we are..."The Obama King", who refuses to uphold the rule of law himself, as well as protect and defend the Constitution about to appoint the next Supreme Court Justice who by the way is also expected to uphold the rule of law, as well as defend the Constitution...
What the f**k am I missing here???
She is an intelligent beauty queen. No Miss California there.
for time-limited political appointments proceed.
What the FUCK makes you think they'll not block ANY SCOTUS nominee to the left of Ed Meese?
There's only one nominee sure to get through the PUkes: robert Bork
Wasn't Bork one of the very few nominations to be actually denied rather than withdrawn in recent history? By a very bi-partisan decision.
about it...
that's one reason nobody with any kind of a marginally or nominally "liberal" record stands a chance...
because he was a fucking train wreck, with a non-constitutional view of the constitution, not because he was a Thug, or a bona fide conservative.
Some people (read Thugs, Federalists) prefer to make shit up and rally round the lie. We've seen it too often.
me-oww!
No Freddy Knuckles? Not much of a list without Freddy. Of course, of the names there, Granholm is my pick.
Wow, there's a lot of paranoia here, and not many people with favorites. Notwithstanding predictions of doom and fascism, this is a pretty big decision. And well worth the effort to do a little reading and make your feelings on your favorite known. ABAnet and Judgepedia are both places to find summaries of careers and rulings.
My letters went out for Diane Wood. Antitrust and Int'l Trade lawyer (so she's not afraid of fields in which the US has given up some sovereignty), and Obama's in the process of putting teeth back in antitrust. She's spent 20 years at U. of Chicago and the 7th Circuit sitting across from Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook -- not only two of the smartest conservatives in the country, but conservatives with a very fully formed philosophy behind them. I can't think of any better training for sitting across from Scalia and Roberts.
She doesn't have the Everyman background, I think she plays oboe in the Chicago Symphony now, but I'm for getting the intellectual big guns on the court now and using the next pick to find the person who can explain to her colleagues how things work in the real world. Judge Sotomayor would also be good, but I like Wood's chances a little better for becoming the intellectual energy behind the next generation of the liberal side of the court.
The question is, are you Democrats prepared? Given this wonderful list of lefty women, he'll actually choose some white male right of center. I'm going to have a big laugh at that.
I would really like to have seen Gore on the list.
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