NardDogNation wrote:WaltLongmire wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:Obama should nominate a moderate Republican like Collins or Snowe from Maine. I think it would be disastrous for Republicans if they weren't even willing to let him appoint one of their Republican colleagues.
Saw this...nice nomination in terms of diversity, and he's been acceptable to Republicans so far, and not a controversial jurist according to the article.
Sri Srinivasan
Among those the administration could turn to is Sri Srinivasan, 48, who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since May 2013. He would be the first Indian-American on the court and has impeccable bipartisan credentials.The Senate confirmed him on a 97-0 vote three years ago. He was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, now retired, a 1981 appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan. At Srinivasan’s confirmation hearing, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, now a presidential candidate, described himself as a long-standing friend dating back to their time together as law clerks in the U.S. appeals court based in Richmond, Virginia.
Cruz said Srinivasan had done a “very fine job” in answering the committee’s questions.
During his nomination to the appeals court, prominent Republicans such as former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson supported Srinivasan. At his 2013 investiture, leading lights of the legal establishment from both parties praised him. Federal appeals court judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee for whom Srinivasan was also a law clerk, called him “lightning smart.”
So far on the appeals court, his rulings have not sparked controversy.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/indian-american-among-those-obama-could-nominate-to-replace-justice-scalia/
I'm a "liberal," or progressive, but I'd have no issues with a slightly left of center moderate added to the court, assuming that this is what Sri Srinivasan has been as a jurist, and adding a new ethnicity to the court is always a good thing, assuming he/she is qualified.
Don't think I'm going to do a "Case for Sri Srinivasan" thread on UK, but without having done serious research on the guy, I'm hoping that he gets some consideration.
His association/approval with Ted Cruz is a huge red-flag for me and makes me question his character. I understand that this is politics but I think the "birds of a feather" motto is still applicable in this context. I'm all for diversity but not if it's the Indian version of an Uncle Tom like Clearance Thomas.
And really what does this say about our politics when men like Scalia, Thomas and Alito get to be gay-bashing, corporatists and racists yet still get nominated to the court but liberals can't even get a liberal Democrat to even be considered?
He was appointed by Obama, though...and it was to one of the more significant courts in the nation.
Obama is not going to nominate someone like Thomas, who will be feeling pretty lonely on the bench from now on.
His Cruz association was a working one.
Have to be pragmatic at this point.
Heard another report about Sri Srinivasan on NPR, today...similar comments about him being a potential bi-partisan choice.
Liz Warren, however much I would LOVE to see her in nice black robe, is not the kind of nominee who even stands the slightest chance of confirmation...and would be taken as a provocation choice by the Right.
EnySpree: Can we agree to agree not to mention Phil Jackson and triangle for the rest of our lives?
2/14/2016 8:48 PM