David Souter is Leaving the Supreme Court

Souter’s departure will leave Obama the first opening to nominate the Supreme Court Justice in his presidency. As the high court is moving to the conservative side, he would be under tremendous pressure from the progressive side to nominate someone who will advance the progressive agendas. Moreover he has to consider women or minority candidates to satisfy his base.

This is what Nan Aron, President of Alliance for Justice, a coalition of public interest organizations suggested.

“Most Republican senators can be expected to oppose any worthy nominee, so nothing is to be gained by nominating someone who is not a strong and effective voice for core constitutional values. Many of those senators are on record explicitly opposing filibusters of judicial nominees; their hypocrisy should be exposed if they attempt to block a majority vote.”

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