$100 on Sonia Sotomayor?

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Will she be the next Supreme Court justice? Who knows, it has only been a day. But there’s blog buzz, both pro and anti.

A look at all the candidates from Michelle Malkin and Tom Goldstein from SCOTUSblog guesting on The Plank.

HuffPo has an info pages on Sotomayor.

Ed Whelen at NRO’s Bench Memo has the case against, from the conservative perspective, obviously.

Joe Conason has the case for, in Salon, from the liberal perspective, obviously.

We got two posts saying Sotomayor is the front runner, Rod Dreher on the right and Taegan Goddard from the middle.

Any other Sotomayor news? Comments.

UPDATE: David Frum’s comments on Sotomayor.

UPDATE #1: More from Frum.

UPDATE #2: Christy Hardin Smith at Firedoglake has a post up. She links to a post from BLT.

UPDATE #3: Via Volokh’s Jonathan Adler, we have this post from Flopping Aces containing a video of Sotomayor. There’s another post at Volokh’s Orin Kerr defending Sotomayor in the video.

UPDATE #4: Allah Pundit has the video and comments.

UPDATE #5: Jeffrey Rosen in The New Republic has the case against Sotomayor. Matt Y. dissents from Rosen.

UPDATE #6: Jason Linkins at HuffPo also dissents from Rosen.

Scott Lemieux has post up: “Gunning for Sotomayor.”

UPDATE #7: Marc Ambinder

UPDATE #8: Jeffrey Rosen got a whole lotta smacks from the left on that piece:

Glenn Greenwald

Emily Bazelon in Slate, linking to Greenwald

Ta-Nehisi Coates

UPDATE #9: Reihan Salam defends the Rosen piece.

UPDATE #10: Kevin Drum on the Rosen piece. We also have DougJ. You know what Atrios is calling for.

UPDATE #11: One more update and we get a free Latte. Anyway, Brian Beutler over at TPM has a piece up.

UPDATE #12: LATTE! And Paul Mirengoff at Powerline dismisses the Rosen piece.

“I’m not in a position to judge the truth of this assessment, but I rate its value as very low. Law clerks as a group tend to be arrogant, self-important, and immature (fortunately, many shed these traits when they grow up). And, like other sources in these matters, their reports may be based more on a personal preference, such as the elevation of an academic, than on a good faith assessment of Judge Sotomayor.”

UPDATE #13: Millman won’t give $100. He will, however, give $.02 on Sotomayor. We’ll take it!

UPDATE #14: More from Adler, on the Rosen piece, which probably should have gotten its own post. Oh well.

UPDATE #15: Rosen-mania sweeps the country. We got Rosen’s responses: here and here. End graph:

“If the piece had a less provocative headline, perhaps it would have been clearer that I wasn’t presuming to make a definitive judgment, but to encourage the White House to weigh considerations of temperament against the many other factors they’ll be considering. Sotomayor is an able candidate–at least as able as some of the current Supreme Court justices–and if Obama is convinced she is the best candidate on his short list, he should pick her. For the next Supreme Court seat, the president needs to be sure that the nominee’s temperament and abilities are not merely impressive but absolutely stellar. She–and the next justice should indeed be a she–must be ready to challenge the conservatives and persuade her fellow liberals from the very beginning. I look forward to exploring some of the other names on the short list soon.”

Greenwald on Rosen again. It is the full Greenwald:

“Jeffrey Rosen and The New Republic really are owed a debt of gratitude for shining a light on how shoddy, arrogant, non-responsive and deliberately misleading so much of our establishment “journalism” really is.  Rosen purports to respond today to what he condescendingly refers to as the “energetic response in the blogosphere” to his anonymity-dependent attack on Sonia Sotomayor’s intellect and judgment.  Rosen doesn’t deign to name any of the critics and links to only a couple, and is thus free to ignore many of the serious ethical problems and factual errors in his “reporting” raised by numerous commentators and to distort that which he does address.”

UPDATE #16: SCOTUSBlog

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