Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Obama Nominates Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court

I apologize for not getting this up yesterday, but I sleep sometimes.

Yesterday morning Obama announced his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court to replace Justice Souter.

Sotomayor would become the second woman on the court, only the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court, and the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court.

She is obviously qualified for the job, having graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude, she attended Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She spent five years as a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office before entering a private practice. She currently serves as an appeals judge for the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, covering New York, Vermont, and Connecticut.

Even with all of her extensive experience and qualifications for the job, conservatives have already started showing us how rocky the road to her confirmation will be, calling her a “judicial activist”

Conservatives argue Sotomayor has a “hard-left record” and believes that judges should consider experiences of women and minorities in their decision-making.

Here is President Obama’s introduction of Sonia Sotomayor:

And here is her speech:

First Door on the Left went over to an extremist conservative blog to see how the conservatives were reacting to this nomination and of course, as you may have suspected, they were full of hate speech, racism, and sexism. Check it out if your stomach can handle it.

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