Diane Wood

CNN: "The burden of proof is clearly on the White House with any future Supreme Court nominations," said Gary Marx, executive director of the Virginia-based Judicial Crisis Network. "It was assumed on the last go-around that it would be more of a rubber stamp," with Sotomayor winning easy confirmation. "But we're in an entirely new world politically. Obama, I think, wants to take a more aggressive posture, and continue to appeal to his liberal base with the next court nominee, but the Democratic Senate may decide it's not in their best interest to hitch their wagon to the president."

The Judicial Confirmation Network (www.judicialnetwork.com) today launched a series of ads that expose the records of President Obama's reported frontrunners for the Supreme Court nomination to replace Justice Souter. The ads are available at www.obamasfrontrunners.com.

"With the bully pulpit of the Presidency, Congress, and the media under the control of liberals, the American people are getting a giant deception about the the liberal judicial activist philosophy of nominees floated as frontrunners," said Wendy Long . "They are not moderates or centrists; they hard-left activists who would decide cases based on their feelings and their personal political agendas."