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Posner on Sotomayor

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Preposter S5/26/2009 1:41:53 pm PDT

Obama chose a woman in poor health who will be very challenged to serve more than 10-15 years. A heart condition and diabetes is a bad combination. She is just as left as she can be, not likely to charm her fellow justices around her opinions and what law she does write will come back at the court time and again: I am told her opinions were reversed 80% of the time- this means her legal reasoning is poor and will result in additional caseload for the court when the lower courts send up cases to figure what the heck she meant in her opinion.