Maddow: Jeh Johnson Possible Replacement For Scalia, Could Get Through GOP Senate

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/13/maddow_jeh_johnson_possible_replacement_for_scalia_could_get_through_gop_senate.html

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1. Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Isn't this the same guy who nearly drafted MLK to fight the War in Afghanistan?

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2. This guy is better...

Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan (born February 23, 1967) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 97–0 on May 23, 2013. Before being confirmed as a judge he was the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and he has argued 25 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and was also a lecturer at Harvard Law School. Srinivasan also is known for having represented former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling in his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, Skilling v. United States (2010).


He's only 48.

But I'd be happy with Loretta Lynch, as well, although she's already 56, which is only a year older than Justice Elena Kagan.

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3. But THIS guy is the nomnee the GOP fear the most: Mexican-American, Harvard, Yale, Stanford;

[font color="red" size="14"]The GOP’s Worst Nightmare SCOTUS Nominee[/font]
Tino Cuellar. California judge. Mexican-American. Harvard. Yale. Stanford. How many Latino votes you think the GOP’d get if they block him?



Here’s a name you need to get to know: Tino Cuellar. Who is Tino Cuellar? The potential Supreme Court nominee who could tie the Republican Party in the most Gordian knots of any of them, and who could thereby alter the presidential race dramatically as well.

Yes, yes; Barack Obama should choose the person best qualified for the job with whom he is most intellectually comfortable. But should that person be Mariano Florentino Cuellar, there could be plenty of benefits aside from having a brilliant, young, Latino person on the Court.

Cuellar, 43, is an associate justice on California’s State Supreme Court. He was born in Mexico. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He grew up on the border, and his family moved to California’s Imperial Valley when he was a teenager. He was smart and decided he wanted an education. He got one, all right. Get this resume: undergrad, Harvard; law school, Yale; master’s and doctoral degrees, Stanford.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/15/the-gop-s-worst-nightmare-scotus-nominee.html