Who should Obama pick to replace Souter?

[Krimson X]

I'd like to add Charles J. Ogletree (Professor at Harvard Law) to the list. According to the blogosphere, here are the frontrunners:

Johnnie Rawlinson (9th Circuit Court of Appeals, African American woman);

Leah Ward Sears, (chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, African American woman);

Sonia Sotomayor (2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Hispanic woman);

Kim McLane Wardlaw, 9th Circuit, Hispanic woman);

Diane Wood, (7th Circuit, woman, knows Obama from her time teaching at the University of Chicago);

Jennifer Granholm (Michigan governor, woman);

Merrick Garland, U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit);

Deval Patrick (Massachusetts governor, African American, Obama friend);

Cass Sunstein (University of Chicago law professor, Obama friend)

GOP gears up for Court fight - Glenn Thrush and Manu Raju - POLITICO.com

[Wagner]

Just know it will not be a white male.

[Krimson X]

Originally Posted by Wagner

Just know it will not be a white male.

6 out of 9 ain't bad?

[Wagner]

Originally Posted by Krimson X

6 out of 9 ain't bad?

Guess that makes the racism against whites OK.

Be curious what the press would say (and the Al Sharpton crew) if the non-spoken work was 'no black men'.

[Krimson X]

Originally Posted by Wagner

Guess that makes the racism against whites OK.

Be curious what the press would say (and the Al Sharpton crew) if the non-spoken work was 'no black men'.

I had a feeling my question would lead to this.... My question was who should he pick. Obviously, you are not limited to the frontrunner list.

That had been the non-spoken word for years (and for women).

The S.Ct. was established in 1789. Thurgood Marshall, the first non-white male, was selected to the bench in 1967, and served until 1991 where he was replaced with........ Clarence Thomas. A one-for-one swap-out for the black dude. O'Connor was the first non male selected to the bench in 1981, followed by Ginsburg in 1993. So, during the 220 years that the S. Ct. has been established, only four justices were something other than white male.

... but I regress...

[Quicksilver]

How about Wagner

[E61Silver]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

How about Wagner

Is he a lawyer?

[AzX5]

Michelle Obama

[X5rolls]

Bill Clinton

[asawadude]

The media has Sonia Sotomayor, who sits on the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit and Kathleen Sullivan, Dean of Stanford University Law School, pegged as the two leading candidates. Both would be controversial candidates for various reasons.

A lesser known, yet very qualified pick would be Harold Hongju Koh, former Dean of the Yale Law School and recent Obama nominee as legal counsel for the State Dept. Koh will have have some huge tasks at hand (i.e. Guantanamo), if his nomination is approved. This guy should get the nod, but the Asian always gets passed over in both the white man's and black man's world unless there's a computer involved.

Sonia Sotomayor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kathleen Sullivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harold Hongju Koh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Of course, Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton are patiently sitting by the phone, waiting for Barack's call.