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A new nominee for the Supreme Court will soon be chosen and President Barack Obama says that he will recommend a candidate who believes in a woman’s right to choose and the privacy of her body. Obama stated that it is very important to him that his court choice take women’s rights into account in interpreting the Constitution. He also has warned of a “conservative” judicial activism.

Obama and the New Court Nominee

On April 21, 2010, an article for The New York Times titled “Obama Seeks Court Nominee Who Backs Women’s Rights” reported that a new nominee will succeed Justice John Paul Stevens, who turned 90 recently and is retiring in the summer of 2010. The article, originally written by Associated Press’s Jesse J. Holland, states that among the people being considered for the position are federal appeals court Judge Ann Williams, appeals court judges Diane Wood, Merrick Garland, and Sidney Thomas, former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow.

Holland affirms thatwhen asked if he could nominate someone who did not support a woman’s right to choose, Obama replied: “I am somebody who believes that women should have the ability to make often very difficult decisions about their own bodies and issues of reproduction… I will say that I want somebody that is going to interpret our Constitution in a way that takes into account individual rights, and that includes women’s rights.” He added: “And that’s going to be something that’s very important to me, because I think part of what our core constitutional values promote is the notion that individuals are protected in their privacy and their bodily integrity. And women are not exempt form that.”

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