Tuesday, May 26, 2009  Obama to Nominate Sotomayor  Obama is set
to announce his replacement for Souter this morning, and
insiders have indicated that he intends to nominate Sonia
Sotomayor, a federal judge on the United States Court of
Appeals, the Second Circuit. Democrats might like the pick, but
some Republicans have already intimated that they might be
gearing up for a filibustery fight.  Sotomayor represents one a
version of a fairytale story, a kind of textbook example of what
"The American Dream" is supposed to mean. She grew up in a
public housing project complex in New York City and was raised
by Puerto Rican migrants in the South Bronx just a few years
before a Diasporic form of vernacular music, hip-hop,
concretized into something globally marketable along that same
neighborhood's sidewalk space. Sotomayor lost her dad before she
became a teenager, and her mother raised the family alone.
Sotomayor still thrived.  She went to Princeton and then Yale
Law School. She received her first important judg