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-- Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, a personal friend of Obama and fellow Harvard Law grad;
-- Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, confirmed by an anonymous White House source as one of at least 10 contenders; Slate writer Emily Bazelon calls her "a great dark horse....a star legal academic....and a leading expert on family law; she's also close to Obama, having mentored him as a law student, and her father, former FCC Commissioner Newton Minow gave him his first legal job as a summer law firm associate; and
-- numerous other names mentioned in various High Court sweepstakes opinion pieces, most unfamiliar to the public.
America needs no more Scalias, Alitos or Kennedys. It needs another Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan or William O. Douglas, more then to follow. Instead, Obama will likely shift today's extremist Court even further to the right, for sure if Elena Kagan is appointed or others with similar credentials.
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