Slate Posts Obama Newsfeed Update

The newest edition of Barack Obama’s Facebook Newsfeed has been posted over at Slate. Always a fun way to stay up on political news. Also, you’ve gotta love when Thomas is the only Supreme Court Justice to vote in favor of 13-year-olds being strip-searched at school.

Nominee Sotomayor

Pat Buchanan is troubled. None of us should be surprised of course. He’s Pat Buchanan. What has his dander up at the moment is the nomination of Judge Sonya Sotomayor, who said, during a speech at Berkeley in 2001, that her life experiences as an Hispanic woman affect her decisions from the bench. [...]

Souter to Leave the Court

Precisely who Obama will nominate to fill Souter’s seat is a mystery, but recent speculation suggests that the nominee will likely be a woman. Such a choice would make up for Bush II’s decision to appoint Samuel Alito in place of Sandra Day O’Connor, rather than appointing a female judge as many were urging at the time. [...]