Character Reference

NRO quotes TNR on Judge Sotomayor, the front runner for Obama to nominate to the Supreme Court.

Over the past few weeks, I've been talking to a range of people who have worked with her, nearly all of them former law clerks for other judges on the Second Circuit or former federal prosecutors in New York. Most are Democrats and all of them want President Obama to appoint a judicial star of the highest intellectual caliber who has the potential to change the direction of the court.

The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was "not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench," as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. "She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue."

NRO concludes-

Oof. So she's dumb and obnoxious. Got it.

Looks like she'll fit right in with the rest of the Obama administration then...