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In introducing Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the Supreme Court, President Obama was careful to stress that the Appeals Court judge had already been confirmed twice by the Senate in the 1990s. But while the first of those confirmations went remarkably smoothly, the second was held up by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sotomayor's Last Nomination Fight | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

It also didn't hurt that she's been through the Senate confirmation process twice before - as George H.W. Bush's nominee to the Southern District Court of New York in 1992 and Bill Clinton's to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1998. The White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Picked Her | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

The fact that she is the first Hispanic nominee will put Republicans who wish to oppose her in a difficult political spot, given the 9-percentage-point decline the party suffered in Hispanic support in the 2008 presidential election. "It presents a huge political problem for them," says the White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Picked Her | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

Of course, the judicial-confirmation process can take surprising turns, as Senators delve more deeply into the background of a nominee. (Perhaps you've heard of Clarence Thomas?) Which is why Senate Republicans want to give this one a lot of time. "We will thoroughly examine her record to ensure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Picked Her | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

When David Souter was nominated by George H.W. Bush to the Supreme Court, the jurist had so little in the way of a record of past rulings that people called him "the stealth nominee." There's no such problem with Sonia Sotomayor, the woman Barack Obama just chose to replace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Moderately Liberal Mind of Sonia Sotomayor | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

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