When Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced last week that he’d be retiring, it didn’t take long for the handicapping on his replacement to start.
Hello I’m Charlotte Bellis and you’re watching Newsy.com.
Last week Newsy looked at how the media covered the announcement.
Now we’re taking a look at the guessing game as to whom Obama will choose as his first Supreme Court nominee.
ON
Fox News, political commentator Dick Morris says Obama will reload the court with youth from the left.
“This is a cinch for Obama. He’s going to pick the youngest liberal he can find. I wouldn’t be surprised if he found a kid just out of law school. Seriously, he’ll pick somebody in their 40’s most likely.” (
Fox News)
On
MSNBC’s Hardball, correspondent Pete Williams thinks the President will pick a female Obama.
“It seems to me that what he really wants is the female equivalent of himself, someone who is a legal scholar, knows the law, an expert on the Constitution, but has had some hard knocks, has worked on the streets, has some political experience.” (
MSNBC’s Hardball)
Politico offers up a list of possible Supreme Court contenders.
But, it notes, that whomever Obama nominates, the choice won’t please everyone.
“The President faces competing imperatives in replacing Souter, including the pressure to appoint the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court and his own ties to prominent legal academics beginning with his years at Harvard Law School.” (
Politico)
On
ABC This Week, the Wall Street Journal’s Jerry Seib says it isn’t one justice Obama will replace – it’s three: Souter, and the elderly Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens.
“It actually enables President Obama to strategize how he picks, what kind of people he picks knowing the next pick isn’t the last one it’s the first of several.” (
ABC This Week)
