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We Know the Type of Justice Obama Might Pick

By Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 16 2016 5:46 PM

Because he’s already told us many times.


President Barack Obama speaks on the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in Rancho Mirage, California on Feb. 13, 2016.

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...a judicial capacity to look outside of one’s own life experience and to use the levers of the law and Constitution to help the voiceless and afflicted.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/02/here_s_the_type_of_supreme_court_justice_obama_wants.html

Someone very different from a mean-spirited, self-absorbed 'true religious conservative' of the nature that any of the GOP candidates
for president in 2017 (except actually maybe the newly more conservatively minded xenophobe Trump) would ever consider nominating.