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