Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair: "This Will Be Obama's Legacy" @ Counterpunch

One possible dynamite Supreme Court candidate for nomination? [Excerpt]:

There’s one more name that has been nervously circulated among progressive circles, that of Elizabeth Warren, currently head of the Congressional Oversight Panel on the banking bailout. Warren originally hails from Oklahoma and a professor at Harvard Law School. Warren is as close as we can now get to Stevens’ economic populism and has been eloquent on the topic of corporate skullduggery and on the pro-bank tilt of the bailout. She would, actually, be a shrewd choice for Obama, because it would turn the Supreme Court confirmation hearings into a debate on  economic justice, consumer protection and regulation of Wall Street  where Warren’s Republican opponents be forced to take the side of the rich, at a moment when the rich are not popular with a large number of Americans.  Read more at Counterpunch.

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