Sotomayor for the Supreme Court

[netmouse]

btw, regarding the Supreme Court nomination, RH realitycheck writes:

Sotomayor's trail of opinions paints a picture of a fair-minded, incisive legal scholar who is unafraid to stake out unpopular but legally meritorious positions. Right-wingers are going to oppose her nomination with full force - we would be foolish to do it for them.

I quite agree with that last bit. With regard to her history, I still don't know a lot, but the NYT article has a lot of links, here's a bit on the empathy thing, and here's Obama's own video about it.

ETA: comments lead me to read this Salon.com discussion by Greenwald, which is also good and contains links to more material relevant to the topic.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Tom Goldstein presents a good (readable and detailed) summary of her opinions here, including discussions of at least two times she's been reversed and one where she's likely to soon. There may be one reversal not accounted for, or I may have lost count.

The article is based on a review some people conducted previously, it doesn't say why; but that means it's not hurried work, it was researched at leisure.

I don't know what normal numbers of reversals are for a judge of her experience, but the cases discussed do not bother me. I'm pretty much in favor of her after reading that article. Even the one anti-second-amendment case is arguably an unwillingness to ignore a Supreme Court precedent at the Appellate court level rather than an opposition to the obvious fact that the second amendment should apply against the states just as much as the first, third, and fourth. And the others.