Ben Feller reports for AP:

A source tells The Associated Press that President Barack Obama is considering California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno and more than five other people as nominees for the Supreme Court.

I, for one, am glad to see Justice Moreno on the "short list." It is well known that the President is under pressure to appoint a Hispanic justice. Most of the candidates mentioned to date, though, have served as judges on the federal courts of appeals and nowhere else. Between Justice O'Connor's retirement in 2006 and Justice Souter's impending retirement, we could have a high court entirely devoid of state-court judicial experience. Not good.

Justice Moreno has served on both the federal district court and the state high court, which would add a useful diversity of experience.

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