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10:05 PM ET, May 26, 2009

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Huck comes out firing — at ‘Maria’ Sotomayor — Mike Huckabee comes out hard against the Sonia Sotomayor appointment, with a bit of a misfire as concerns her name: … post comment | … Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1) — Unbelievable. How do you still have credibility in judging …

Discussion: Huck PAC, Firedoglake, The Buzz, The Foundry, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Top of the Ticket, Mother Jones, Democracy in America, The Huffington Post, The Daily Dish and David Corn

John Yoo / The Enterprise Blog:

Empathy Triumphs Over Excellence — President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that empathy has won out over excellence in the White House. Sotomayor has sterling credentials: Princeton, Yale Law School, former prosecutor, and federal trial and appellate judge.

Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Daily Dish

Aaron Blake / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:

RNC fumbles Sotomayor talking points — Whoops. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has apparently inadvertently released its list of talking points on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. — Included on the released list were a few hundred influential Republicans …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, TPMDC, Crooks and Liars, Baltimore Sun, News Hounds, CBS News, Washington Times, Washington Monthly and Donklephant

New York Times:

Obama Hails Judge as ‘Inspiring’ — WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in a Bronx public housing project to become the nation's first Hispanic justice.

Richard A. Epstein / Forbes:

The Sotomayor Nomination — The hidden costs of presidential empathy. — In a previous Forbes column, I decried President Barack Obama's insistence that empathy would weigh heavily in the scales when it came to his next Supreme Court nominee. And reading the arguments that were put forth …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, SCOTUSblog, The Politico, Betsy's Page, NewsBusters.org, Flopping Aces, Townhall.com and Don Surber

Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:

The Dynamic of the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor — The White House will announce a Supreme Court nominee at 10 a.m. The Senate Judiciary Committee will likely hold hearings in the third week of July, permitting written committee questions the following week and a floor vote before Congress leaves …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Swampland, Ta-Nehisi Coates, NPR, Associated Press, Think Progress, Don Surber, Christy Hardin Smith, Democratic Strategist, The Plum Line, NPR Blogs, PERRspectives and Democracy in America

Mark Halperin / The Page:

Rush Limbaugh on Sonia Sotomayor Nomination — Do you think we should go to the mat stopping Sotomayor? Do you think we oughta go to the wall to oppose her? And I said absolutely we should. Once again, an opportunity to draw the distinct contrast that exists today between conservatives …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Hot Air, Fox News, Stop The ACLU and Salon

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Obama's choice of Sotomayor deserves praise — Reports indicate that President Obama has selected Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. The announcement will be made formally this morning at 10:15 a.m. EST. This nomination …

Discussion: Slate, Scholars and Rogues, tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com, PrawfsBlawg, Glenn Thrush's Blog, NY Daily News, FOX Forum, American Prospect, Media Matters for America, Weekly Standard, New York Times, Think Progress, The Plank and The Politico

Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:

Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Supreme Court Nominee — President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court, officials said Tuesday, and has scheduled an announcement for 10:15 a.m. at the White House.

Discussion: MSNBC, The Politico, Judgepedia, Washington Post, beliefnet, Los Angeles Times, American Power, Calitics, Above the Law, AMERICAblog News, Law Dork, 2.0, Taegan Goddard's …, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, DownWithTyranny!, Christy Hardin Smith, Greg's Opinion and Runnin' Scared

Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:

Court overrules Michigan v. Jackson — Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled its 23-year-old ruling in Michigan v. Jackson on the rights of a criminal suspect in police custody who has asked for a lawyer. The Court did so in Montejo v. Louisiana (07-1529), in an opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia.

Discussion: New York Times, NPR Blogs and ACS Blog

Mark Halperin / Time:

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Headed for Easy Supreme Court Nomination — President Barack Obama knows how to avoid a fight — and still do what he thinks is right. The media and conservative activists might be spoiling for a Supreme Court nomination battle, but the choice of Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor …

Discussion: The Brody File, Matthew Yglesias, The Huffington Post and Salon

Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:

Conservatives Blast Obama's Hispanic SCOTUS Nominee As ‘Not The Smartest’ And An ‘Intellectual Lightweight’ — When the media began floating Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a possible Supreme Court nominee, one of the first comprehensive articles to come out was a piece by Jeffrey Rosen in The New Republic.

Discussion: TPMDC, Toby Harnden's blog listings, The Corner, The Huffington Post, Salon, The Plank, American Prospect, Taegan Goddard's …, Lawyers, Guns and Money, The Raw Story, Environmental Capital, Greg Mankiw's Blog, Bench Memos and Atlas Shrugs

Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Republicans Weigh Risks of a Supreme Court Battle

Discussion: Firedoglake and Balloon Juice

Jonathan Martin / The Politico: What SCOTUS pick says about Obama

Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
OH NO: WHO WILL REPRESENT WHITE MALES ON THE COURT?

Discussion: Media Matters Action Network, Washington Monthly and TPMDC

Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The Sotomayor Pick: I am not yet sure what position to take on …

Discussion: Cato @ Liberty, Reason, The Atlantic Politics Channel, The Daily Dish, Pajamas Media, Outside The Beltway, QandO and Above the Law

Walter Olson / Forbes:
Obama's ‘Wise Latina’

Discussion: PointOfLaw Forum

Jan Crawford / Legalities: Becoming Nominee Sotomayor

CNN:
Sotomayor: ‘Most humbling honor’

Discussion: Washington Post, Outside The Beltway, Balkinization, AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, New York Times, Chicago Public Radio Blog and DISSENTING JUSTICE

Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Inhofe worries that Sotomayor may allow 'undue influence from her …

Discussion: Fox News

RushLimbaugh.com:
GOP Must Go to Mat on Sotomayor to Tell Real Story of Barack Obama

Discussion: SCOTUSblog, Hot Air, .. … and The Caucus

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama picks Sotomayor for SCOTUS slot

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Fox News, Associated Press, Stop The ACLU and Verum Serum

Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Re: Is Opposing Satomayor Anti-Hispanic?

Discussion: Macsmind and MoJo Blog Posts

Associated Press:
Justices Ease Rules on Questioning

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Prairie Weather

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Why Sotomayor Was Appointed by a Republican President in '92

Discussion: The Atlantic Politics Channel

The Plank:
The Sotomayor Nomination

Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY, Balloon Juice, New York Times, TalkLeft, The Corner and Democratic Strategist

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Sonia Sotomayor's greatest hits

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, AmSpecBlog, NPR Blogs, PoliBlog and Commentary

Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Republicans won't beat Sonia Sotomayor by attacking her as too darn human.

Discussion: Christy Hardin Smith, The Volokh Conspiracy, About.com Conservative … and Facing South

Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:

Prop. 8 upheld by California Supreme Court — The justices uphold the same-sex marriage ban but also rule that the 18,000 gay couples who wed before the November vote will stay married. The decision is sure to spark another ballot box fight. — Reporting from San Francisco …

Discussion: Courtinfo, San Francisco Chronicle, Taylor Marsh, CNN, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, Washington Post, The Washington Independent, ABCNEWS, AMERICAblog News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, L.A. Now, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Chicago Breaking News, The Moderate Voice, Left in the West, BuzzFlash.org and FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog

Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Court upholds Prop. 8 but lets marriages stand

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, Crooks and Liars and theblogprof

John Schwartz / New York Times:
California Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Same-Sex Marriage

Discussion: New York Times

Shelby Grad / L.A. Now:
California Supreme Court upholds Prop. 8; gay marriage remains banned in state

Discussion: Calitics, Firedoglake, Michelle Malkin, San Francisco Chronicle and JammieWearingFool

Wall Street Journal:

Millionaires Go Missing — Maryland's fleeced taxpayers fight back. — Printer — Friendly — Here's a two-minute drill in soak-the-rich economics: — Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy.

Discussion: The Atlantic Business Channel

Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:

Judge OKs release of secret recordings between Burris, Blagojevich's brother — A federal judge today authorized the release of audio tapes of secret wiretaps of conversations between U.S. Sen. Roland Burris and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother to a Senate ethics committee.

Discussion: Chicago Breaking News, Capitol Briefing, The Caucus, Progress Illinois and Moe Lane

John Ruberry / Marathon Pundit: Pay to play: Burris promised campaign check for Blago

Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:

Tucker Carlson to launch right-leaning HuffPo alternative — Pundit Tucker Carlson publicly announced Tuesday that a right-leaning news site resembling the Huffington Post he's been planning will go live within weeks. — Carlson will launch TheDailyCaller.com, which he said would focus …

City Hall:

Weiner Will Not Run for Mayor — One-time frontrunner to skip race against Bloomberg — Confirming suspicions that have circulated since he informed supporters in April that he would be suspending his campaign, Rep. Anthony Weiner is ending his mayoral aspirations for 2009, according to a source with knowledge of the decision.

Discussion: The Daily Politics