But Is She a Cat Person or a Dog Person?

From The BLT,  we learn that the ABA's review of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has begun. The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary will evaluate Judge Sotomayor's integrity, professional competence, and judicial temperment, but will not take into account her "philosophy, political affiliation, or ideology."

No worries there, the mainstream press and the blawgs are undertaking that review.  CNN's Quick Vote poll asks readers whether they "agree with" President Obama's selection.  When we visited, 341,300 legal scholars had weighed in.  (Not feeling qualified to vote, we didn't.)  It's hard to believe that all the voters had ever heard of Sonia Sotomayor before last week, let alone had any principled basis for agreeing or disagreeing with her selection: maybe they were sports fans?  Deadspin assures us that she is "Not A Squishy, Wild-Eyed Commie, After All".  

Count our vote as  "glad that the ABA will once again be vetting the Supreme Court nominee."