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Obama Nominates Sotomayor, Called Evenhanded on Business Issues

Posted by: Theo Francis on May 26

In naming Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Barack Obama seems to be offering business interests a nominee in departing Justice David Souter’s mold: pragmatic and fairly predictable.

Business issues don’t tend to drive the Supreme Court nomination process, as colleague Steve LeVine and I observed in a recent BusinessWeek magazine piece, but neither do they tend to break down into the stereotypical, and contentious, conservative vs. liberal divide. Industry lauded Souter’s firmly centrist stand on business issues, as Steve observed here earlier this month.

And that’s much of what we’re hearing about Sotomayor as well. That suggests there won’t be a flood of opposition from moneyed business interests.

Together with the fact that Sotomayor was originally appointed to the bench by the first President Bush, and confirmed by the Senate for that seat and her current appellate-bench seat, her confirmation may prove less contentious than many predicted for Obama’s first high-court pick.

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