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.

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[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

*waves hello* Hi! I was that person who kept randomly introducing herself to you because you looked awesome, but I kept forgetting that I already had (woe for ConBrain).

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

HiHi!

I was just wishing this morning that I could remember your LJ handle (what was that you were saying about con brain?)

Thanks again for inviting us out to dinenr Sunday. I'm glad we're hooked up in the e-world now and I hope to stay in touch.