Oct 29, 2010 ... Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe said Sotomayor could have a "negative  impact"; He also was critical of three other justices and some being considered  for appointment; His comments were in a letter to Obama in May 2009.  Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's longtime legal mentor and ...
She said it, but later backtracked. Mitch McConnell · Says Hillary Clinton "lied  about why her parents named her Hillary." — PolitiFact National on Tuesday, July  19th, 2016. Mostly True. Obama never explicitly said moderate. Mitch McConnell  · Says Obama "called Kagan a moderate. He called Sotomayor a moderate.".
Mar 16, 2016 ... The early consensus on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is in, and it's  that Garland is a moderate: A former prosecutor, careful in his ... According to one  measure of Supreme Court justices' ideology, Garland is hardly less left-wing  than Obama's past nominees, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
Aug 8, 2016 ... He got two left-leaning women onto the Court: Sonia Sotomayor, the first  Hispanic justice, and Elena Kagan, his former solicitor general. ..... “On a broad  range of matters there's not a dime's worth of difference between a Goodwin Liu  and a so-called moderate,” says Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and ...
Oct 10, 2016 ... Donald Trump didn't have much to say about the Supreme Court, other than he  had a “very beautifully reviewed” list of pre-nominees. ... and may explain why  Obama offered Garland's name in the first place: he's a moderate, consensus  nominee that Republican senators should be able to get behind.
Says Obama "called Kagan a moderate. He called Sotomayor a moderate."