Sotomayor is the SCOTUS choice.....announced on NBC just now.

[old mark]

Idiot reporter stated that her parents were "immigrants" from Puerto Rico.

(Puerto Ricans are US citizens.)

Here cfomes the GOP: " NO!"

Good pick, Mr. President.

mark

[ejpoeta]

1. i thought the pick was going to be announced at 10:15.

why is it every time obama is going to make an announcement it is all over the media BEFORE he makes it.

[billyoc]

3. Because he told them.

[KharmaTrain]

5. It's Called "Priming The Pump"

All politicians leak...it gets them a quick read on the reaction and allows them to put their own spin team in place. Honestly, releasing the name two hours before the announcement is made is damn good.

[ejpoeta]

8. ok. i was just wondering because it happens every time. LOL. i feel like an idiot.

[KharmaTrain]

10. Nah...It's Inside Baseball Stuff...

The last person you trust with a secret is the corporate media. The second last person to trust is a politician. President Obama has done a damn good job of keeping his cards close to the vest...thus I see these leaks as giving the corporate media the feeling they've got a scoop (stroke their egos) while you've actually controlled the roll out.

The leaks that are a pain are the ones you don't want out. Like about pictures of people being tortured or that everyone's phone is being tapped.

Cheers...

[Kalyke]

15. It's not a matter of trusting the media.

Any fool should know that it's not the media's job to keep a secret - quite the opposite.

Just making a point.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Good!

I knew it! I predicted it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8384483&mesg_id=8385666

[a kennedy]

4. Judge Sotomayor issued an injunction against major league baseball owners

In what may be her best-known ruling, Judge Sotomayor issued an injunction against major league baseball owners in April 1995, effectively ending a baseball strike of nearly eight months, the longest work stoppage in professional sports history, which had led to the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in 90 years.

article here: <http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/obama-makes-decision-on-supreme-court-nominee/>

[CTyankee]

12. Her best known ruling now is actually the ruling she made as part of a 3 judge panel

on the "reverse" discrimination of the New Haven white firefighters against the mayor for throwing out the test results for promotion of the whites because the blacks did not score highly enough, resulting in a racially imbalanced outcome.

That ruling has fueled the fires of the RW all across the country. It's not gonna be pretty...

[a kennedy]

14. oh yeah, you got that right...... it ain't gonna be pretty.....

[Lochloosa]

18. It was never going to be pretty. I didn't matter who he picked.

[sui generis]

13. ugh.

now that's too damn much government. I hope there are better decisions than that to recommend her.

[get the red out]

6. As long as she is pro-choice and anti-torture

her parents could have "immigrated" from Alabama and I wouldn't care. ;-)

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Damn, you user ID is cool.

Wish I'da though of that one.....

:rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Bring on the spectacle of the GOP campaigning against the Latino candidate.

:popcorn:

[KittyWampus]

11. I like the way you think.

[old mark]

19. Read about her at Wikipedia - she is a "centerist", but the GOPers

blocked her appointment to her current position with a "secret hold" for a year....

They will hate her because she is Puerto Rican and female, as well as "empathetic".

She is extremely well educated and intelligent, even though she is a Yankees fan.....


mark

[JayMusgrove]

22. Being a Yankees fan will do it....she's not going to be confirmed if

she's not a Red Sox fan, I know it !!

Souter is a Red Sox fan, we need the Red Sox represented on the SCOTUS.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

16. Souter ---- Sotomayor

I like it.:applause:

[Pab Sungenis]

17. Sotomayor would not be my first choice.

Or my second. Or third. Or even fourth. Maybe around 7 or 8.

Still, she's better than most of the others on the bench now, and (as much as I hate using this phrase with every thing to do with Obama) "probably the best that we could expect."

[JeanGrey]

20. Good pick. We need to be thinking about votes first and fore

MOSt!

[cherish44]

21. Well let the bitching and hissy fits begin!

Who will bitch more, the right or the left?

[JayMusgrove]

23. I am loving this pick! This is a wonderful choice.

I think we all will be well represented by her.

[Laelth]

24. I am very pleased.

From what I saw of the short list, she was my first choice.

:dem:

-Laelth