# Obama Picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court, AP Says **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663 "2009-05-26T12:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/1 "2009-05-26T12:38:46Z")
President Obama has picked Sonia Sotomayor, a judge on the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for the Supreme Court, making her the first Hispanic selected to be a justice, according to the Associated Press. He’s going to announce the nominee today at 10:15 a.m. Eastern time, according to news services. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/2 "2009-05-26T13:00:32Z")
Damn! I had money on Alberto Gonzales. ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/3 "2009-05-26T13:05:19Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Damn! I had money on Alberto Gonzales. That is the scariest shit ever. I’m sending you the bill for therapy and an Ambien prescription for my now sleepless nights. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/4 "2009-05-26T13:08:30Z")
But…but…she’s too _faaaat_! And she has _diabetes_! And she has too much _eeeempathy_! (\*) She’ll never do. What the Supreme Court needs is a white man with no empathy. What the hell is Obama thinking?? (\*) yes, all brain-damaged criticisms I’ve heard once Sotomayor’s name came up for consideration. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/5 "2009-05-26T13:31:09Z")
Well, it’s about time that we diabetic-Americans were represented in the highest court of the nation. ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/6 "2009-05-26T13:40:20Z")
The conventional wisdom turned out to hold true, neat. A very good pick for the identity politics alone, republicans know that they really just have to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/7 "2009-05-26T15:16:47Z")
Wikipedia calls her a centrist, and says she upheld Bush’s Mexico City Policy on not allowing foreign abortions with US financial aid, but it doesn’t really say much else about her. What else do we know? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/8 "2009-05-26T15:53:12Z")
That she has an _awesome_ last name. After I saw Cuban high jumper Juan Sotomayor at the '88 (I think) Olympics I ran around randomly saying “Sotomayor!” for days, Beavis-style. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/9 "2009-05-26T15:56:42Z")
If you want interesting trivia, **Aesiron** , she made a key ruling in the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike. [Here are some brief summaries of well known cases she was involved in.](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/26/us/0526-scotus.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/10 "2009-05-26T17:35:16Z")
Thanks, **Marley**. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/11 "2009-05-26T17:36:38Z")
I like her. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/12 "2009-05-27T00:03:24Z")
Ok. That was my surreal moment of the day. Various tidbits: [10 Things You Should Know](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/26/sonia-sotomayor-10-things_n_207724.html) About Sotomayor. Of course, the Leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, [hopes she fails](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/26/limbaugh-i-hope-sotomayor_n_207690.html), with the added bonus of confirming yet again his hope that President Obama fails. The RNC accidentally sent the day’s [Talking Points](http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/05/26/rnc-fumbles-sotomayor-talking-points/) to the press. There are lots of other stories about her and the nomination [on this page](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/sonia-sotomayor). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-picks-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-ap-says/497663/13 "2009-05-27T01:18:04Z")
She’s got an _interesting_ history. Rulings that upset both sides galore! **Bricker** : while you’re here, why doesn’t the 14th Amendment make the 2nd Amendment applicable to the states?