Potenial SCOTUS pick "hearts" who? (You guessed it) BIG BIZ

[TalkingDog]

Yay, just what we need. One more corruptable, corporate loving shill.

http://grist.org/politics/obamas-potential-supreme-court-pick-has-a-shady-history-with-exxonmobil/

Given his participation in these cases, environmentalists and human-right advocates have criticized Srinivasan in the past. In 2013, Marco Simons, the legal director of the nonprofit EarthRights International, wrote a letter to the U.S. Senate raising serious questions about Srinivasan’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals. It read:

Mr. Srinivasan built a practice around defending powerful multinational companies against allegations of human rights abuses such as war crimes, torture, and summary execution. He has been one of the principal architects of a legal strategy intended to secure special exemptions for corporations from liability for serious abuses, and which seeks to undermine an important mechanism to enforce international human rights law.

[KamaAina]

1. Sounds kind of like Breyer

who generally votes our way except when big bu$ine$$ is involved.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Is anyone expecting BHO to pick a liberal?

I would expect centrist. He wants to get through the senate.

[onenote]

7. At DU and elsewehere everyone has their own definition of who is a liberal

Plenty of DUers consider one or both of Kagan and Sotomayor to be "centrists" even though they agree with Ginsburg over 90 percent of the time (as often or more often than Thomas agreed with Scalia to give some point of reference).

[Yavin4]

3. Um, Legal Defense of anyone/anything is being a liberal

Are you saying that some people/organizations don't deserve a legal defense? Just because you defend a real terrorist, doesn't make you a terrorist.

[MohRokTah]

4. Oh brother!

[berningman]

5. well he does have a tendency to make some pretty shitty nominations

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-appointee-gave--100-000-to-jeb-bush-s-super-pac-195717552.html

[onenote]

6. Obama has had 323 nominees for judicial posts confirmed

and has filled well over 1000 other posts ranging from cabinet officials to ambassadorships to agency heads to various advisory commissions and study groups.

And you turn one example into a "tendency".

Wow.

[Katashi_itto]

8. Is anyone expecting Hillary to pick a Liberal?