Case Law Professor Believes Sotomayor Will Likely Be Confirmed

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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Conservative lawmakers in Washington have called President Obama's Supreme Court nominee radical and say they may filibuster the choice, Jonathan Entin, Dean of Academic Affairs at Case Law School, believes that's not a course that will ultimately succeed.

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Entin Explains Why He Thinks Sotomayor Will Be Confirmed

Some conservative lawmakers in Washington have called President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee radical and say they may filibuster the choice, but one local law professor believes that’s not a course that will ultimately succeed. 

Case Western Reserve Law Professor Jonathan Entin says Sonia Sotomayor’s credentials defy the description of “radical”.  For one thing, she was first appointed to the federal bench by a republican - George H. W. Bush.  Also, she was a prosecutor for six years, and she was a corporate lawyer - both unlikely positions for a radical leftist. 

“Because these claim have been made so indiscriminately, it’s really hard to take those criticisms that Judge Sotomayor is some sort of a wild-eyed radical - it’s very hard to take them seriously,” Entin says.

“The people who are making these claims are, many of them, people who would make the same claim about anyone president Obama appointed.”

Entin says he doesn’t think enough Republican senators opposed to the nomination to support a filibuster.  He believes the debate could take awhile, but that Sotomayor will be confirmed.