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)

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