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Thu Aug-06-09 11:11 PM
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5. I was surprised that Obama chose someone as conservative-friendly as Sotomayor...

a former corporate lawyer and a jurist known for deference to corporations and police. I suspect he was thinking that Republicans would be pleased with a relatively conservative nominee, and especially loath to oppose her and possibly offend an ethnic group not previously represented on the Supreme Court (Reagan made the same bet with Scalia, and it paid off for him: Democratic senators voted unanimously for Scalia, a known ultraconservative, for fear of offending Italians). So since it appears Republicans will fight any nominee like hell, Obama might as well give us a liberal next time.

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