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Originally Posted by dreamerhippie
slowly but surely they're becoming the party of angry white men and losing a generation of latino voters. maybe 15 years from now the majority of us might be citizens. how many of us are gonna forget this struggle to get republicans to vote on CIR/DA? i don't think we'll ever forget.
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Yep, we were just talking about that yesterday. Democrat majority for the next generation.
The HuffPo has a great article by Sam Stein on how Sotomayor got picked:
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Following a thorough vetting process that drew down the number of potential Supreme Court nominees to four, President Barack Obama ultimately settled on his decision to nominate Sonia Sotomayor at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, senior administration officials said.
In the most detailed briefing to date about the process of filling the forthcoming Court vacancy, two high-ranking White House aides said on Tuesday that the president's decision on who should replace Justice David Souter came down to Solicitor General Elana Kagan, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit judge Diane Wood, and Sotomayor.
The president personally knew the first three, having appointed two to their current posts and worked with Wood in Chicago. He had never met Sotomayor before.
But after the two spent an hour together discussing judicial philosophy in the Oval Office last Thursday, he ultimately settled on the judge from the second district court of appeals. That meeting was part of a seven-hour visit Sotomayor made to the White House -- without, remarkably, being caught by any members of the press corps. The president had expressed an inclination as to his choice on Friday but took the weekend to think about it.
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Diane Wood would have made a great justice as well, but hopefully she'll get picked next time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_207664.html