Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Native American to the Supreme Court?

Well, now this is interesting:

The president has cheered diversity on the Supreme Court with his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who would be the first Hispanic and third woman to be appointed to the bench. For his next pick, we turned to you in our most recent Whispers poll.

Respondents chose racial diversity over religious diversity or difference in sexual orientation. A whopping 50 percent of those surveyed said they would like to see President Obama choose a Native American for the Supreme Court if the president got a second selection. Nineteen percent said they would like to see Obama appoint an Asian and 16 percent an African-American justice. Only 13 percent hoped to see a gay or lesbian justice as Obama's next pick. And coming in last, with 2 percent, was a Muslim justice.

As near as I can tell those were the only choices, the implied question being if Obama goes with a minority candidate, which minority group should he select from. Unfortunately the pickings are slim, as right now there are no Native Americans on the federal bench.

2 comments:

Nat-Wu said...

Well that would pretty much be a conflict of interest, don't you think?

Alexander Wolfe said...

Ha. Yeah, I suppose so.