The American Pundit

None of them especially appealing, several of them extremely troubling. It’s actually that there are at least six names on the list, including the following:

Among those under consideration are California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Appeals Court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Pamela Wood.

Let’s review a few of those for a moment.

Justice Carlos Moreno was an appointee of the recalled Governor Gray Davis and the impeached President Bill Clinton. He has served as President of the Mexican American Bar Association, supports same-sex marriage, and was apparently recommended to the White House by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

Elena Kagan served as Associate White House Counsel under President Bill Clinton, has served as a law clerk for multiple Democratic judges, and taught at the University of Chicago Law School. She was actually a controversial pick as Solicitor General because, er, she has little courtroom experience and has never argued a case at trial, much less before the Supreme Court. She also believes that battlefield law applies to areas other than the battlefield, including the ability to detain an individual indefinitely.

Jennifer Granholm is the Canadian-born governor of Michigan, where she became the first female governor of the same in 2003. She is currently serving her second and last term in that state, previously served on the transition team for Barack Obama, and played the role of Sarah Palin in mock debates for Joe Biden. Her approval rating in Michigan currently stands at a whopping 37 percent. She has previously served as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan and as a law clerk for lefty Judge Damon Keith.

Janet Napolitano is the former governor of Arizona and current generally-incompetent Secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama. She earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and clerked for Judge Mary M. Schroeder on the Ninth Circuit. An early endorser of then-Senator Obama, Napolitano worked for the Obama-Biden Transition Project. She was nominated for Homeland Security Secretary on November 5th. Since then she has incorrectly claimed that the 9/11 hijackers came through the U.S.-Canadian border, her department has put out a memo labeling conservatives as right-wing extremists, and the American Legion has criticized her for the same memo that insulted veterans.

Sonia Sotomayor is a federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She attended Princeton University, worked as an Assistant District Attorney in New York, and was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H.W. Bush (who, ironically, also appointe Justice David Souter). She was nominated to her current position by President Bill Clinton. She has a hard-left record on the bench, believes judges should consider the race and gender of a defendant when making a decision, and is described by lawyers who’ve appeared before her to be a “bully” who makes inappropriate outbursts.

Diane Wood is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Law. She served as a law clerk for both Judge Irving Goldberg and SCOTUS Associate Justice Harry Blackmun during the 1970s. Wood served as an adviser for the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State during President Jimmy Carter’s term, and was a special assistant to the assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice during President Ronald Reagan’s second term. Like Sotomayor, Wood has a far-left record. She has attempted to apply RICO to prevent pro-life activists from engaging in protests and, as documented by Michelle Malkin, has shown hostility to religious groups and exercises.

Like I said, none of them are especially appealing, and many of them are extremely troubling.