Everything Comes Back to Baseball
Like national Club for Growth blogger Andy Roth, I'm a baseball fan. To kick things off after a long weekend, a note on Obama's Supreme Court nominee from Baseball Primer:
Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Supreme Court Nominee
President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court, officials said Tuesday, and has scheduled an announcement for 10:15 a.m. at the White House.
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In what may be her best-known ruling, Judge Sotomayor issued an injunction against major league baseball owners in April 1995, effectively ending a baseball strike of nearly eight months, the longest work stoppage in professional sports history, which had led to the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in 90 years.
In related news:
Politico: Republicans hold their fire on Sonia Sotomayor
In talking points distributed by the Senate Republican Conference to its members before the Memorial Day recess, Senate GOP leaders recommended that the GOP should neither "pre-judge" nor "pre-confirm" any Obama nominee. They said that any nominee should live by the baseball metaphor used by John G. Roberts Jr. during his 2005 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, when he said that a justice should simply "call balls and strikes" and not "pitch or bat."
Sooner or later, everything comes back to baseball.
