Do you hear, Carrie, whether there's - might be any flexibility among Senator - among Senators if the president were to choose a moderate? Now, the catch is that Republican leaders in the Senate have already said they will not act on any nominee that the president puts forward because they want to leave that choice to the next president. In her confirmation process for the lower court bench in D.C., she brought along her pastor. And faith has been important and prominent in her life. She's the wife of a current or former Navy revervist (ph) - reservist rather. Finally, there's Patricia Millett, who's argued a lot of Supreme Court cases. And we know from past history, President Obama loves those kind of stories. She's now a judge on the Ninth Circuit too. Her family fled and lived in a refugee camp for a time. JOHNSON: And also, two women, Mary Louise - Jackie Nquyen, who was born in Vietnam. He's clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski, a very prominent judge, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is not so conservative. He's an African-American judge currently on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was born in India, who's worked with both Democrats and Republicans and on some big cases in the private sector too. He's a 2013 appointee to the Federal Court of Appeals here in Washington, D.C.
A man being mentioned a lot is Sri Srinavasan. JOHNSON: OK, with the caveat that the White House is not leaking me the shortlist - although I do know lawyers there have been working around the clock on this issue. So walk us through some of the names that are being floated.
And it's really unlikely he's going to pick that kind of fight now, at this stage in his presidency. He has not, as a general rule named ideological bomb-thrower types to the bench over the last seven years. He values diversity, diversity of experience and empathy. If history is a guide, Mary Louise, two prior nominees by the president to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, tell us something. We know from the White House that they do not intend to name somebody to the High Court while the Senate is in recess. KELLY: Has President Obama said anything specific about who he's looking for? Good morning, Carrie.ĬARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Good morning, Mary Louise. Well, with us to talk about who that appointee might be is NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson. Now the White House has a chance to shift the balance of power with a new Democratic appointee. That's because the court has been closely divided, five to four, on major social issues for years. Srinivasan lives in California with her husband and four children.The death of Justice Antonin Scalia leaves a big hole in the Supreme Court and a big opportunity for President Obama. While an undergraduate, she created one of the first applications to bridge text messaging across CDMA, TDMA, and GSM spectrum networks in the U.S. in political science and a minor in music from the University of Washington. from Yale Law School, where she studied law & economics and was an Olin Fellow with the Kauffman Program in Law, Economics and Entrepreneurship. Formerly, she was the founder of Effidia, an advertising technology company whose technology was acquired by a division of WPP. Most recently, she worked for WPP, the world’s largest advertising holding company, helping shape the company’s programmatic advertising strategy and partnerships.
For the previous ten years, Srinivasan was a technology entrepreneur and advertising executive. Dina Srinivasan authored the paper “ The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, ” which explains market concerns with Facebook under prevailing economic theory and shows how the company’s privacy issues have everything to do with competition.
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