Will Obama appoint a woman to the Supreme Court?
With last night's news of the pending departure of Justice David Souter from the bench, all bets seem to be placed on a female replacement. The one woman on the Court today, the venerable Ruth Bader Ginsburg , is elderly and suffering from colon cancer. NPR's Nina Totenberg this morning ran through a list of possible contenders: Possible nominees who have been mentioned as being on a theoretical short list include Elena Kagan , the current solicitor general who represents the government before the Supreme Court; Sonia Sotomayor , a Hispanic judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Diane Wood , a federal judge in Chicago who taught at the University of Chicago at the same time future President Barack Obama was teaching constitutional law there. UPDATE: Garance Franke-Ruta has more on this; women's group pushing hard.