{"id":41454,"date":"2016-02-14T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T02:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=41454"},"modified":"2016-02-14T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T02:28:16","slug":"obama-to-nominate-indian-american-judge-on-us-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/obama-to-nominate-indian-american-judge-on-us-supreme-court","title":{"rendered":"Obama to nominate Indian-American judge on US Supreme Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/obama.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41455\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"302\" height=\"369\" data-attachment-id=\"41455\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/obama-to-nominate-indian-american-judge-on-us-supreme-court\/obama-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/obama.jpg?fit=302%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,369\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"obama\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/obama.jpg?fit=246%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/obama.jpg?fit=302%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41455\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/obama.jpg?resize=302%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"obama\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/obama.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/obama.jpg?resize=246%2C300&amp;ssl=1 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a>Sri Srinivasan could become the first Indian-American to be on the bench of the US Supreme Court after conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia&#8217;s sudden death gave rise to speculation that President Barack Obama may nominate the judge who enjoys impeccable bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>Chandigarh-born Srikanth &#8216;Sri&#8217; Srinivasan, 48, tops the list of prospective justice to the country&#8217;s highest judicial body as Obama said he plans to fulfill his &#8220;constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor&#8221; to Scalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any list begins with Sri Srinivasan, a member of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit &#8211; a traditional launching pad for Supreme Court nominees,&#8221; the CNN reported today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s always a short-list of potential justices that court experts and watchers have in their heads; Obama will be cognisant that he is replacing a conservative icon and that might temper his choices, leading him to try to find someone that at least some Republicans in Congress might find acceptable,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>At a time of bitter political divide when it would be tough for Obama to get through his nomination, Congressional experts pointed that Srinivasan&#8217;s nomination as a federal judge was confirmed by the Senate with a record 97-0 votes including the two Republican presidential aspirants Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>Srinivasan, whom Obama had first nominated to the post in 2012, was a high school basketball star in Kansas before attending Stanford University, which he graduated from in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>He was Obama&#8217;s principal deputy solicitor general, most notably working on the successful fight against the Defence of Marriage Act, but also has experience on the other side of the aisle &#8211; serving as an assistant to the solicitor general during the George W Bush administration and as a clerk to retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p>Past reports have also labelled Srinivasan as Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Supreme Court nominee in waiting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Srinivasan, whose mother is from Chennai and father was from Tirunelveli, is considered to have a bipartisan support in the Congress and is popular among lawmakers of both the parties.<\/p>\n<p>His parents had migrated to the US in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting a bitter political divide, top Republican leadership including its presidential aspirants urged the president to leave the nomination to the new president.<\/p>\n<p>However, Obama said he has no such intention.<\/p>\n<p>Trailblazer Srinivasan was sworn in as judge of the second most powerful court of the US in 2013, making him the first Indian-American to be on the bench of the US Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor, who had administered the oath of office, called Srinivasan &#8220;fair, faultless and fabulous&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Srinivasan could become the first Indian-American to be on the bench of the US Supreme Court after conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia&#8217;s sudden death gave rise to speculation that President Barack Obama may nominate the judge who enjoys impeccable bipartisan support. 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