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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
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 …
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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 …
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New York Times:
Obama Hails Sotomayor 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.
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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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 …
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 …
Richard A. Epstein / Forbes:
The Sotomayor Nomination — 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 to justify the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor …
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 …
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The Sotomayor Pick: I am not yet sure what position to take on President Obama's selection of Sonia Sotomayor. My general sense is that she is very liberal, and thus likely to take what I consider to be mistaken positions on many major constitutional law issues.
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CNN:Sotomayor: ‘Most humbling honor’
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:FIRST THOUGHTS: IT'S SOTOMAYOR
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The Plank:The Sotomayor Nomination
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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The best possible response to the North Korean nuclear test — I think the Obama administration has come up with a novel way of dealing with the North Koreans — get everyone to talk about something else. — Half-seriously, this is not a bad idea, because I'm not sure that anything else …
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Rasmussen Reports:
49% Oppose Closing Guantanamo Prison Camp — Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide now disagree with President Barack Obama's decision to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey …
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 …
The Huffington Post:
Petraeus Endorses Obama's Plans To Close GITMO, End Torture — General David Petraeus said this past weekend that President Obama's decision to close down Gitmo and end harsh interrogation techniques would benefit the United States in the broader war on terror.
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