criticism and she got 68 votes. you only need 51. the bottom line is she wins. you can see all she wants to. i doubt very seriously senator sessions is going to lead some kind of filibuster against elen thelena kag kagan. when you win the presidency, you appoint who you want. we republicans obviously know who she is. and she s the kind of judge we expect president obama to nominate. the key thing for democrats, we had a judge named suter that never voted with us ever. i think democrats will press very hard to find out who she is. but they won t vote against her. that s important. understand, if you listen to senator mendez, he kept saying she s a centrist. you never hear a republican nominee being called a centrist. conservatives have done a good job of forcing democrats of not appointing strong liberals but
mark, appointed justice david souter, a guy that surprised him with some of the rulings he made, tended to be way more toward the liberal side. is it possible as president obama gets ready to make his second supreme court appointment, is it possible that he could wind up with a surprise? we could only hope, but it s unlikely. it seems to be president ford nominated john paul stevens, president reagan nominated sandra day o connor, president reagan nominated judge souter. it s only when bush nominated alito and roberts that we have conservative votes. the democrats never seem to i guess they do better ideological vetting of candidates. the democrats never seem to nominate independent thinkers who surprise us with their decision. jon i m sure you agree with that, right, bob beckel? of course. but you know, suter souter was the one who was really a big surprise for everybody, and i think that
potential replacements? they definitely have potential candidates for the president to look at and they ve gone through this once before. a year ago when they were deciding who to replace justice suter when they chose sonia sotomayor. they ll look at some of the people they looked at then, elena kagan, diane wood a federal judge from chicago. merrick garland a federal judge from washington. also possibly janet napolitano the homeland security secretary former governor of arizona and jennifer granholm who is governor of michigan. so the president has said he wants someone who has some political experience as well but they re pretty well along i think in terms of looking at potential finalists. nbc justice correspondent pete williams. thanks so much. reporter: you bet. thousands of children descended upon the white house lawn today to take part in the annual easter egg roll. the first family was on hand to welcome visitors and take part in the event that included
she has a free speech right to say what she wants to say but there is an impact on the court and that s why we re talking about it today. as we red in the new yorker, justice stevens, one of the longest members of the court, is considering retirement. what do you think president obama will do. when suter was replaced he went more moderate, it was a wash, net net. this is one of the most liberal members of the court. there will be a lot of pressure on him to appoint somebody as liberal. can he do it in this environment? i think it will be different in this environment. he s probably giving up much of his hope for bipartisanship in any realm. i think republicans in the congress and senate have made it clear they are going to fight moderate judicial nominees. there s going to be a hyun fight over this nominee whether it s a moderate or liberal. i think we can see the fight is going to be much fiercer if it s a liberal nominee.
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