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Manhattan judge Sotomayor eyed to replace Souter

WASHINGTON - Topping several speculative lists of President Barack Obama's choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter is New York's Sonia Sotomayor, a trailblazing judge on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. That is a familiar spot for Sotomayor, who has been mentioned as a potential justice by Democrats since the 1990s. She quickly became a target of conservative...

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