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Sonia Sotomayor, the White House confirms, will be announced as the nominee for the Supreme Court at 10;15 this morning.
POLITICO will be all over all aspects of the choice today, but the key political implication is the obvious one: This is a dramatic symbolic bolstering of Obama's relationship with Hispanics, whose support could ensure his reelection. (Can he be the first Hispanic president too? He's been quietly, respectfully working the community as hard as Bill Clinton did African-Americans.)
The appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to a Supreme Court seat seems to have hit some speed bumps in recent days. Although President Obama has a historic opportunity to appoint the first Hispanic judge in the court's history,
