Obama Supreme Court Nominees

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks Supreme Court Retirement Plans

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 09.01.2011

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WASHINGTON — Democrats and liberals have a nightmare vision of the Supreme Court's future: President Barack Obama is defeated for re-election ne...

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Elena Kagan Will Be Obama's Supreme Court Pick: Mike Allen

Posted 05.25.2011

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Updates below... President Obama is expected to nominate Solicitor General and former Harvard Law dean Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, Mi...

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Obama To Choose Supreme Court Nominee By May 26

Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama will decide on a candidate to replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens by May 26 at the latest, The Hill reports. ...

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Sidney Thomas On Supreme Court Short List

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's candidates for the Supreme Court include a new name, federal appeals court Judge Sidney Thomas of Montana,...

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Leah Ward Sears: Supreme Court Short List Increases By One

Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears is on President Obama's short list of nominees to be the next Supreme Court justice, ABC's ...

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Memo to Justice Stevens: Don't Listen to Arlen Specter

Carl Jeffers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carl Jeffers

Regardless of when Justice Stevens retires, Obama will appoint a centrist, center-to-left or liberal leaning replacement. The replacement will not be conservative or conservative-leaning -- period.

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Obama's Supreme Pick: No Drama, No Bomber

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Horowitz

when Republicans actually come face-to-face, or even voice-to-voice, with the actual Obama, they can't help but be reassured -- or is it disappointed? -- that he's not the bogeyman they've made him out to be.

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Obama's Greatest Mistake

Martin Garbus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Martin Garbus

Obama should not be looking only to moderate Democrats. The great liberal Justices gave us one-man/one-vote, proportional representation, and school integration.

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Blog Already Polling Potential Souter Replacements

Above The Law | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATL readers, there are many names being bandied about as potential nominees for the Supreme Court. We've narrowed the list to nine people who have bee...

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Diane Wood: Supreme Court Nominee? All You Need To Know

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Wood, a 14-year veteran of the Chicago 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, was an early name tossed into the ring as a possible Obama Supreme Court no...

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Seth Waxman: Supreme Court Nominee? All You Need To Know

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seth Waxman, one of the names on the short list for President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee once Justice David Souter retires in June, wa...

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Judge Diane Pamela Wood Floated As Possible Obama Supreme Court Pick

Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Judge Diane Pamela Wood, 58, has spent the last 14 years going toe-to-toe with the legendary conservative lions of Chicago's 7th Circuit Court of Appe...

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