President Obama continued his defense of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor with his weekly radio address. This complements the deluge of commercials being broadcast on her behalf. One would have to ask why this is necessary if she is so qualified and her confirmation seemingly so inevitable.
One would like to hear more about her decisions, philosophy and practices and less background biography - all of which is impressive as are other members of the Supreme Court. It would seem Judge Sotomayor could stand on her own merits.
It would seem President Obama himself in his original introduction, could have made a better case for her by pointing to substantive cases she weighed in on rather than settling the baseball imbroglio - something that would testify to a sober and serious jurist.
Maybe it's because Obama was the first president in history to vote to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee when in the Senate - and he voted against both Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.
The President discusses the breadth and depth of experience held by his nominee for the Supreme Court. In the course of a life that began in a housing project in the South Bronx and brought her to the pinnacle of her profession, Judge Sonia Sotomayor accumulated more experience on the federal bench than any incoming Supreme Court Justice in the past 100 years, touching nearly every aspect of our legal system.
President Obama Weekly Address: May 29, 2009:
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