Obama's nominee has been called a judicial activist and had her intelligence questioned. But she has an inspiring personal story and could help Obama and the Democrats reshape the political landscape. Six angles on a historic nomination.
Fat Judges Need Not Apply
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Justice may be blind, but not when it comes to weight. Paul Campos reports on the bizarre campaign to find a woman to replace David Souter on the High Court-as long as she's thin.
The Court's Other Diversity Problem
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rarer than a lesbian or Latino on the bench: a justice who didn't go to Harvard or Yale. While other speculate on the race and gender of Justice Souter's replacement, Paul Campos explains that SCOTUS' real diversity problem is career path and class, and it wasn't always this way.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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