Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court Shoo-In?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212228270.shtml

by Miguel Perez

She meets all the politically correct qualifications the Obama administration is seeking in its first Supreme Court nominee. As a woman, Sonia Sotomayor would help balance the court's lopsided 8-1 gender scale. As a Latina, she would give Hispanics long-overdue representation on our highest court. As a Bronx, N.Y., native and product of a single-parent home, she has the real-life experiences that President Barack Obama considers necessary.

As a sitting federal judge who has been nominated by both Republican and Democratic administrations, she could be a shoo-in when she seeks Senate confirmation. As a child of the projects who got to study at Princeton and Yale and became a successful career woman, she would become a huge role model. As a left-of-center jurist on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, she probably meets all the litmus tests the Democrats deny they will apply when searching to replace retiring Justice David Souter.

But do those assets alone qualify her to be a Supreme Court justice? Of course not! They are just the icing on the cake!

"She also happens to be brilliant," insisted one of my lawyer friends, who called me from Washington. His unexpected wake-up call is part of a growing outcry for President Obama to "do the right thing" and nominate Sotomayor, not only because the time has come for the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice but also because even without many of her aforementioned attributes, she still would be on everyone's shortlist of jurists who could be nominated by a Democratic president.

FULL story at link.

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Three reasons NOT to appoint her

1)Poppy Bush appointee

2) Already enough Catholics on the court

3) Schumer likes her. He liked Mukrazy. Don't take his opinion on anything.

[DonCoquixote]

2. Three reasons

1 poppy bush appointee, well, apparently her voting record is not the sort of thing Bush liked. I do not care what people say they are, but what they actually DO.

2 Catholic. Well, maybe there are some catholics on the court, but again, it falls under what people DO, also..it's not like we have a lot of women or Hispanics.

3. musraky, please, I do not care what HE liked.