What is that you say there isn't a Barack Obama Supreme Court Pick yet? Apparently you are behind the times because Republicans think otherwise. PREEMPTIVE ATTACK TIME!
http://politics.theatlantic.com/...
Few outside the White House know whether the Sotomayor chatter is based on anything other than her popularity among center-left jurists, although her name has been the subject of conversation among some top officials recently. Sotomayor is seen as a compassionate voice for the underprivileged, and she has a solid, if unspectacular, record of jurisprudence. (For that reason alone, I don't know if she'll make the short list; Obama seems to go for the superlatives.)
Conservative talk radio hosts have begun impugning Sotomayor's credibility. And the respectable intellectual center -- see Jeffrey Rosen's case against her temperament and inherent intellectual abilities -- is beginning to have doubts
Sonia Sotomayor MUST BE DESTROYED!
As you can see the first attack by the Right-wing is on a Woman. This is who the Republicans claim Barack Obama has already picked and the battle has already started.
http://www.tnr.com/...
A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Sonia Sotomayor's biography is so compelling that many view her as the presumptive front-runner for Obama's first Supreme Court appointment. She grew up in the South Bronx, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents. Her father, a manual laborer who never attended high school, died a year after she was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of eight. She was raised by her mother, a nurse, and went to Princeton and then Yale Law School. She worked as a New York assistant district attorney and commercial litigator before Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan recommended her as a district court nominee to the first President Bush. She would be the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, if you don't count Benjamin Cardozo. (She went to Catholic schools and would also be the sixth Catholic justice on the current Supreme Court if she is, in fact, Catholic, which isn't clear from her official biography.) And she has powerful supporters: Last month, the two senators from New York wrote to President Obama in a burst of demographic enthusiasm, urging him to appoint Sotomayor or Ken Salazar.
Oh man she is Hispanic Lets DESTORY HER!
http://blog.beliefnet.com/...
Get Ready For: "Is Sonia Sotomayor A Bad Catholic?"
I haven't been able to determine whether she's Catholic, but she's Puerto Rican (most of whom are Catholic) and went to Catholic schools as a child.There already are five Catholics on the court but they're all conservative so they haven't been attacked for being bad Catholics (i.e. being pro-choice despite the church's teaching).
Religion Attack Check!
http://thinkprogress.org/...
On the other hand, she’s also likely to draw opposition from conservatives because her opinions on the Circuit Court of Appeals have been very liberal and very expansive. In fact, this is going to be one the big dividing lines. President Obama...said he wanted a judge who would uphold the Constitution, but also a judge would be empathetic. These two things are in conflict.
She's to Liberal attack Check!
Viral video attack CHECK! So there you have it Republicans are already attacking Barack Obama's Non-Supreme Court Choice before he even makes one.