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Monday, November 10, 2008

Obama's reshaping of the Supreme Court

The one thing that msot people have not spoken about regarding Barack Obama's amazing election win, is how he will shape the Supreme Court over his first term. Justices Steven's, Kennedy, Souter and Ginsburg are all elderly, with Stevens and Ginsburg the eldest Justices. This is an amazing turn of good fortune for America. With his selections, Obama will shape the course of the court for a generation, and then we'll see some REAL change. This nation rises and falls by the strength of it's people and the fairness of it's laws. Reading about his law school years, and some articles on the subject, it seems Obama would choose centrist type judges like Souter, more than Liberal types like Thurgood Marshall. For his second pick, he might go for someone a little more interesting, like a politician like Jennifer Granholm, or Laurence Tribe, or someone like Cass Sunstein, also from Harvard. Either way, look for an empathizer, more than a demogogue. Whoever ends up with the job, we know they won't be at all like Clarence Thomas, who Obama said was the justice he thought was least qualified to sit on the court.