Opinion: Discuss the Sonia Sotomayor editorial
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The Times editorial board gave President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, an ever-so-slightly qualified thumbs up today, saying:
In presenting U.S. Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the Supreme Court, President Obama rightly observed that few presidential decisions are more consequential than choosing a justice. Obama has discharged that responsibility admirably, without ignoring considerations of gender and ethnic diversity. Although Sotomayor must withstand scrutiny from the Senate, barring some unlikely revelation of impropriety she should be confirmed expeditiously, in time to join the court for its fall term.
Read the rest of the editorial here, and weigh in with your own thoughts below.