Obama to announce Souter’s SCOTUS replacement today?
According to Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air Obama is reportedly set to announce his nomination for Justice David Souter’s SCOTUS seat today.
Sometimes, the heavy favorites win the horse race. According to the AP, Barack Obama will announce that he has chosen Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. That allows Obama to appoint another woman and the first Hispanic to the nation’s highest court, giving him another little slice of history:
It’s my understanding that Sotamayor has a pretty high incidence of getting overturned, however. Is that the kind of judge we want up at the top – one that keeps making substantial enough mistakes that higher courts think her decisions are flawed?
