The U.S. Supreme Court

so basically

Wood = Rehnquist
Sotomayor = Scalia (the easier confirmation of the two)
Kagan = Roberts
Napolitano = Alito

?

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/judge-sotomayors-appellate-opinions-in-civil-cases/

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/souters-summits/

WOD wasn't exactly the best justice, but he did know his mountains

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/05/20/wood_goes_to_washington.html

I have hiked in the William O. Douglas Wilderness Area in Washington State. It really is a lovely bit of all right.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/us/politics/25power.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Key_Democrat_warns_against_activist_05242009.html

god ben nelson is such a tool

Just came here to say ^^^^^^, but less eloquently.

The word is Sotomayor:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/obama-makes-decision-on-supreme-court-nominee/index.html?hp

is Bill Brennan dead?

I just wanna say that no matter who the nominee is he or she is totally not good enough for me & is a huge disappointment

I heard Obama is going to pick George W Bush, in a sign of looking forward.

ah crap too slow, NYT main page now says Sotomayor.

I heard Obama is going to pick George W Bush, in a sign of looking forward.

admit that you would pay top dollar to read one of Justice Bush's opinions

I know he has no interest in a liberal "ideologue," whatever that means, but after the 2010 midterms he won't approach a veto-proof majority again. Why not risk a Pam Karlan – someone who can hold their own against Scalia and Roberts?

Yeah, I would have preferred a stronger, more impressive pick -- the kind that would capture law students' fancy and make the liberal wing look highly credible.

"In stunning news, President Obama picked himself for the Supreme Court. "Some say that I'm trying to do too much while in office. To them, I just want to say that I can walk and chew gum at the same time." President George W. Bush, while disappointed with the choice of an "activist judge", said that he was impressed with President Obama's "taking my unitary executive view to a whole new level"."

She ordered the end of the baseball strike so that's good enough for me.

I really don't know much about her, but I can't resist the opportunity:

SOUTH BRONX! SOUTH-SOUTH BRONX!

since i dont follow any judges and shit, can i ask whats not 'strong' about sotomayor?

her left hook

Making left turns when the stoplight turns from yellow to red.

i'm not the biggest Toobin fan but that Roberts article last week in the NYer was scary shit

Sonia Sotomayor?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:24 (2 years ago)

the Roberts article was nothing new - all that stuff was pretty evident at the time of his confirmation, and was in any event made so not long after he took the bench

Agreed.

absolutely. it was just good to be reminded of how scary the guy is

the GOP will be dicks, to be sure, but she'll be a relatively easy confirmation

"after the 2010 midterms he won't approach a veto-proof majority again."

He actually probably will, the Rs are defending many more open Senate seats than the Ds.

o wait

gabbneb (gabbneb) wrote this on thread Bush's nominee to replace O'Connor is Harriet Miers on board I Love Everything on Oct 10, 2005

Kerry or Gore probably would have nominated Sonia Sotomayer or Jose Cabranes. Though maybe they're too Northeastern.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/the-dynamic-of-the-nomination-of-sonia-sotomayor/

The second claim – and this one will be front and center – will be the classic resort to ideology: that Judge Sotomayor is a liberal ideologue and “judicial activist.” (Put to the side the emptiness of the labels – i.e., that one person’s principle (e.g., a decision invalidating state laws authorizing punitive damages) is another’s “activism.”) There is no question that Sonia Sotomayor would be on the left of this Supreme Court, just not the radical left. Our surveys of her opinions put her in essentially the same ideological position as Justice Souter. In the ideological cases where her rulings have been reviewed by the Supreme Court (for example, Malesko and the pending Ricci case), her views have aligned with the left of the current Court.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090526/ap_on_go_su_co/us_obama_supreme_court

Sotomayor is a self-described "Newyorkrican"

uh, ur spellin it rong

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/05/26/sotomayer_talking_points.html

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/05/26/gop_senators_who_voted_against_sotomayer_in_1998.html

(includes Sessions, McConnell and McCain)

If that's how she describes herself, then it's not spelled wrong.

Obama is at his sparkling best at this formal announcement, by the way.

*pop* *fizz*

If that's how she describes herself, then it's not spelled wrong.

it's a matter of pronunciation

is it spelling or pronouncation

pick one and tell us o wise sage of the interwebs

let's all acknowledge gabbknob predicted exactly nothing.

howeve, i called this at a Noise FAP 3 weeks ago

the motion for acknowledgement is granted

well it's not pronounciation. maybe she does say newyorkrican, apparently a few people do:

Results 1 - 10 of about 357,000 for nuyorican
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,380 for newyorkrican

but I'm guessing there's a pretty good chance that whoever wrote the article has either never heard the word before or figures it has to be translated for the audience

lol at morbs

gabbneb is an originalist when it comes to pronunciation. Show some empathy!

the nets seem to have decided that her last name is pronounced "soto-my-air," which i'm guessing is what happens when you start to pronounce her name like golda meir and then pull halfway back

next fall: SNL sketch where she sings "A Boy Like That" to Ruth Ginsburg

no one on SNL is 1/2 as funny as Ginsburg's hubby

in Spanish you slightly roll the last "r," and it's definitely a long "o."