Good read on who might be on the short list. Here's a taste-
The president-elect has given a few hints about what he is looking for in a justice. Not surprisingly, he opposed George W. Bush's nomination of Roberts and Alito to the nation's highest court. Obama has praised former Chief Justice Earl Warren, who was instrumental in ending school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, and current moderate to liberal justices such as Breyer and Souter. Last year, Obama spoke before a Planned Parenthood conference about his judicial philosophy.
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom," Obama said. "The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criterion by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."
h/t Michael
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