As a former Constitutional Law Professor

[ThomCat]

Obama would know the field of scholars and judges who would make good Supreme Court Justices.

It'll be interesting to see who he pulls out of his hat.

[usregimechange]

1. and they need to be young

[boston bean]

2. .

Q Why is the President blocking habeas corpus from prisoners at Bagram? I thought he taught constitutional law. And these prisoners have been there --

MR. GIBBS: You're incorrect that he taught on constitutional law.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-scahill/will-obama-block-release_b_187245.html

[CoffeeCat]

4. That's ODD...

Gibbs is saying that Obama didn't teach Constitutional Law?

Well, I think Gibbs is wrong. I had the pleasure of speaking on the phone with Barack Obama for twenty minutes
during the primary season. He told me that he taught Constitutional Law. He said he taught other classes, in addition to
ConLaw. If I'm not mistaken, Obama mentioned that he taught ConLaw in his "Blueprint for America".

Puzzling.

[Igel]

13. Gibbs is wrong.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050404102348/www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/obama/courses.html

Constitutional Law III: Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process
Current Issues in Racism & the Law
Voting Rights & the Democratic Process

Although the Internet Archive doesn't have anything before 2005, which is strange. Notice that there's a generalization that can be made when his teaching covers equal protection, racism, and voting rights (as well as independent study).

[PBS Poll-435]

3. Hey Thom!

(psst. :hi:)

[ThomCat]

5. Hi.

Okay, you must have had a previous name because I'm drawing a blank. I would have remembered someone named PBS Poll-435. :)

:hi:

[PBS Poll-435]

8. PalinMANIA 2008 affected me as well

I dedicated my new DU name to the psycho PBS poll.


Previous name, prodn2000.

[ThomCat]

9. Your new name is definitely more memorable.

:)

You should stop by the lounge occasionally. I rarely see you're posts because I'm such a lounge lizard. :P

[Thrill]

6. Obama said he wants a Judge in the Earl Warren model.

Thats all you need to know :)

[ThomCat]

10. I hope he can find someone in the Earl Warren model.

I think that model was discontinued. :P

[mzmolly]

7. Indeed.

I defer to the Pesident, of course. ;)

[uponit7771]

11. I would like the judge to be a Hispanic woman, that would be well fitting....

[POAS]

12. how about Judge Sotomayor? n/t