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...White House plans to take the high road in selling Sotomayor to the public. They will point to her résumé, her previous Senate confirmation and her impeccable credentials to make a case for her. Obama's aides are so confident in the political pluses of this pick that some of them would welcome attempts by fringe conservatives to come after her. A few would even like liberals to attack her as insufficiently committed to their causes...
...daunting feeling to be here. Eleven years ago, during my confirmation process for appointment to the Second Circuit, I was given a private tour of the White House. It was an overwhelming experience for a kid from the South Bronx...
...Administration, Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well as his fellow Chicagoan, Appeals Court Judge Diane P. Wood - Sotomayor was the candidate with whom the President was least familiar. But Sotomayor aced an hour-long interview with the President last Thursday at the White House, an official there says. "She is in many ways the combination of the experience and strong intellect he's looking for, as well as the personal life experience to bring to the court something it has never had before...
...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 House official notes that Orrin Hatch - the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as the chamber's most influential GOP voice on judicial nominations - voted for Sotomayor both times. (See TIME's photo-essay on Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination...
...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 House official. "It's not the reason she got the job - but it's not a bad thing. They need to tread carefully here, and their groups are not going to want to tread carefully...