President to Make Announcement at 10:15 AM Eastern
May 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized
The president will make an announcement regarding his nomination for the Supreme Court today at 10:15 AM Eastern.
UPDATED: President Obama has concluded his remarks, but we will have more on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court soon.
From the New York Times coverage of the announcement:
President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in Bronx public housing projects to become the nation’s first Hispanic justice.