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"A Compelling Biography Is No Guarantee of a Smooth Confirmation"

"A Compelling Biography Is No Guarantee of a Smooth Confirmation": Saturday in The Washington Post, Michael A. Fletcher will have an article that begins, "For his first Supreme Court pick, the president chose a pioneering minority in the hope that a compelling story of overcoming poverty to graduate from Yale Law School and become a federal appeals court judge would preempt a bitter ideological fight. The president was George H.W. Bush and the nominee was Clarence Thomas, and if there is a lesson for President Obama in naming Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, it is that compelling personal stories go only so far in guaranteeing a smooth confirmation process."

And Saturday's edition of The New York Times will contain an article headlined "Sotomayor's Focus on Race Issues May Be Hurdle."

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 30, 2009 (boomark / email).