NYT: "Obama Picks Sotomayor, Citing Intellect"

[ClarkUSA]

Suck on this, Jonathan Turley.

The president said he had made his decision after “deep reflection and careful deliberation,” and he made it clear that the judge’s inspiring personal story was crucial in his decision. Mr. Obama praised his choice as someone possessing “a rigorous intellect, a mastery of the law.”

But those essential qualities are not enough, the president said. Quoting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Obama said, “The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience.” It is vitally important that a justice know “how the world works, and how ordinary people live,” the president said.

Judge Sotomayor’s face tightened with emotion as the president introduced her. In the front row of the East Room, her mother, Celina Sotomayor, wept. Her stepfather, Omar Lopez, also was on hand along with her brother, Juan Sotomayor, sister-in-law, two nephews and a niece.

“My heart today is bursting with gratitude for all that you have done for me," she said to her family, describing her selection as “the most humbling honor of my life.”

[DFW]

1. Intellect? No wonder the Republicans are raising such a fuss.

Having an intellect to them is almost worse than being a libbrul!