Facebook

Twitter

StumbleUpon

Email

topics:

White House

Barack Obama

vote downundo vote up flag

salon.com - 11/20/2008

Obama's Supreme Court | Salon News

—

Nov. 19, 2008 | In February 1980, Republican presidential aspirant Ronald Reagan declared that the U.S. Supreme Court needed fresh faces. The court had just declined to block a New York judge's ruling that the federal government should continue to pay for the abortions of poor women. Reagan ...

Blog Reactions

Lawyers, Guns and Money:  Obama's Supremes

Balloon Juice:  Obama’s Supreme Court

Newshoggers.com:  Obama and Supreme Court nominees

Ben Smith's Blog:  Obama's court

Daily Kos:  Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

8

courtinfo.ca.gov - 11/19/2008

California Supreme Court Takes Action on Prop. 8

— courtinfo.ca.gov — The California Supreme Court has issued orders in four cases challenging Proposition 8. The latest news is available on the Supreme Court Web page. (more) California Supreme Court Takes Action on Prop. 8

Comments vote downundo vote up FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog found this 11/19/2008found this

4

salon.com - 11/24/2008

Barack Obama, honeymoon killer? | Salon News

— salon.com — Nov. 24, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- One of the first things Barack Obama did after winning the election two weeks ago was put an old-school political brawler in charge of his White House. Next, he saved Joe Lieberman . Then, he met with John McCain, and ... (more) Barack Obama, honeymoon killer? | Salon News

White House

Barack Obama

Comments vote downundo vote up Jules Crittenden found this 11/24/2008found this

3

latimes.com - 11/17/2008

Who would Obama pick for the Supreme Court? - Los Angeles Times

— latimes.com — "I think Obama would want to make a statement with his Supreme Court justices. We hope for a justice who can replace the lost voice of an Earl Warren or Thurgood Marshall or William Brennan," said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, a ... (more) Who would Obama pick for the Supreme Court? - Los ...

White House

Barack Obama

Washington, D.C

Comments vote downundo vote up The Swamp found this 11/17/2008found this

Leave a Comment

Obama's Supremes
Lawyers, Guns and Money — One potential list here. I must admit that I have a strong sympathy for Sonia Sotomayor, given her role in stopping MLB's attempted bad faith union-busting in 1995, but she seems too moderate to be a good first choice on a Court with four doctrinaire reactionaries and no Brennan/Marshall/Douglas style liberal. Marhsall's former clerk ...

Obama’s Supreme Court
Balloon Juice — ... Here’s a list of possible picks. Unless Scalia surprises and retires during Obama’s tenure, I don’t think the court will likely change much. (via ...

Obama and Supreme Court nominees
Newshoggers.com — ... Both the Times and a panel of judicial experts put together by Salon suggested some potential nominees for Obama to consider.  The nominees common to both articles: ...

Obama's court
Ben Smith's Blog — ... the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg's hospitalization restarts speculation about who Obama will appoint to the court -- whenever he gets an appointment. Speculation had already focused on the likelihood that he'd appoint a woman to the court, and the pressure to appoint a first Hispanic justice, and partly on demographic grounds a Second Circuit judge Sonia Sotomayor is the Great Mentioner's favorite. But the people who spent time mulling this last year floated some other interesting names as well. Among them, Elana Kagan, Jennifer Granholm, and Deval ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — It's Friday... do you know where your pundits are? Justin Jouvenal: Some of these 10 picks to replace Souter already have jobs (reprint), but a good list. Paul Krugman: The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation’s capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a cap-and-trade system on emissions, have risen sharply. Eugene Robinson: At this point, I'm almost ready to start rooting for the Republicans. ...

Souter, Obama, and the Court
Political Animal — ... decades to come. Who's likely to get the nomination? It's obviously very early -- NPR broke the story just 10 hours ago -- but speculation is already focused on a handful of names. Some of the leading contenders include federal appeals court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diana Pamela Wood, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, and Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears. The early buzz is focused heavily on Sotomayor, who would be the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice. Salon republished a list of possible nominees this morning, ...

Supreme Court Bingo: Who Should Replace Souter?
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Here's Salon's list of (the weirdo) Souter replacements. Here's Slate's. Here's Politico's. Here are some hints from the NYT. Yeah, lots of liberal overlap, but we'll all just have to stayed tuned. Obama is nothing if not inscrutable. Been gleefully looking for Limbaugh-ian ones. Will post when their apoplexy lifts. Tee hee.