For the most part I like Obama's Supreme Court replacement for Souter. She is probably not nearly as intelligent as he. However, few people are as intelligent as Souter.
Two things concern me about her, though:
1) A pundit on MSNBC who was discussing the president's SC selections said, "they might represent a president for 40+ years." When I look at Sotomayor I suspect that she will be lucky to survive half that amount of time. I'm just being realistic, folks. She is a diabetic, and she is unbelievably obese.
2) Currently, only 4 of the 9 SC justices were raised outside of the northeast. Only two (John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy) were not educated at Ivy League schools. Sotomayor will replace a fellow northeasterner.
"We must have diversity across genders and races and blah blah." Yeah, yeah. Great. What about REGIONAL diversity? There are other regions aside from the northeast. There are other great schools aside from Ivy League universities.
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