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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:46 PM
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Obama To Announce Supreme Court Pick Monday
Source: CBS



WASHINGTON (CBS) ― President Barack Obama has apparently decided on whom he would like to nominate to take retiring Justice John Paul Stevens' place on the Supreme Court bench, CBS News reported Sunday.

Read more: http://wbztv.com/national/Obama.supreme.court.2.1683815.html


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lordcommander Donating Member (178 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:49 PM
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1. Can CBS NEWS provide us with Names, Hints, Clues on who it is???....
Edited on Sun May-09-10 07:49 PM by lordcommander
:shrug:
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:50 PM
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2. William Shatner?
No they can't even tell us, yet, how it is they know it will be Monday.
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zenprole Donating Member (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:51 PM
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16. Beam Me Up
Kagan's a kreep, but so is Sotomayor. If it's Kagan, corporations will cement their rule over the SC and there will be no looking back. Legally, it will be curtains for what tiny, scattered bits of democracy remain in this place.

But there's always a silver lining: during the confirmation hearings, people can sell t-shirts that read "If Thurgood Marshall were here, he'd smack you in the head."
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:50 PM
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3. Politico already made the announcement.
Haven't you heard?
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iris27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:52 PM
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4. If it's anyone but Kagan, I'll eat my hat.
I've never before heard of an administration putting out talking points in defense of someone who wasn't even the named nominee yet. It's her.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:52 PM
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5. That's what I thought.
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DFLforever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:59 PM
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6. They've made their selection perfectly clear, haven't they?
Plus Kagan's too well-connected to be passed over twice for the SC.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:11 PM
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9. No kidding, plus she'll be on the bench for a long time.
Unfortunately, we can no longer afford the luxury of picking seasoned jurists with decades of decisions behind them. The right picks young, relatively unqualified corporatist and religious ideologues who poison the court for decades.

We have to play their game.
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:01 PM
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7. Galllagher?
Yes!
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:07 PM
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8. I KNEW it would be Joe Lieberman.
:evilgrin:

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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:17 PM
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10. as Patti Labelle sang, "it's gonna take a liberal wee oooo..." - oops probably not nt
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lobodons Donating Member (448 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:26 PM
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11. I am prepared to take my Obama bumper sticker off
If he picks Kagen. Enough already with appeasing the fucking party of no!!! I was hoping for Woods or Granholm. Kagen is too moderate.
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:30 PM
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12. Wood is 59 yrs old, too old. n/t
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:35 PM
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13. I think we will all be quite happy with her, see here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8300335
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:37 PM
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14. And maybe wait to see if you are right before acting?
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 08:39 PM
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15. And maybe consider that Obama knows more about her than all of us put together
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 09:51 PM
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18. Maybe we can get a progressive republican in office and get another Roberts?
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 09:11 PM
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17. Anyone got the TV on?
Edited on Sun May-09-10 09:16 PM by Tx4obama
It's all over Twitter that NBC has confirmed that it is Kagan.
Is that true?

Also from Twitter:

@chucktodd: NBC's Pete Williams: Elena Kagan is POTUS' pick to replace Justice Stevens, making her 4th woman ever on #scotus

Edited to add:
CNN is doing a big Breaking News report now on Kagan.
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 10:20 PM
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19. A great day for WOMEN and the USA! n/t
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 10:49 PM
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20. SEVEN republicans
Seven Republicans voted to confirm her (Kagan) as solicitor general.

Coburn (OK), Collins (ME), Gregg (NH), Hatch (UT), Kyl (AZ), Lugar (IN), Snowe (ME).

Newly minted Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter voted against her.

Above text taken from Alan Colmes' blog: http://www.alan.com /
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 11:02 PM
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21. Obama's NEXT one AFTER Kagan
Since President Obama has been in office for less than one & a half years, and will more than likely be in office for a total of eight years, I am hoping that his next (3rd) nomination will be Harold Koh ;)
He'll probably pick a 'male' next time and Koh would be perfect!
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 11:07 PM
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22. deleted n/t
Edited on Sun May-09-10 11:08 PM by Tx4obama
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