(CNN) — Solicitor General Elena Kagan was easily confirmed Thursday as the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, completing the 50-year-old native New Yorker’s climb to the peak of the American legal profession. The 63-37 vote was mostly along party lines. Five GOP senators backed Kagan, and only one Democrat — Sen. Ben Nelson […]
(Time) — The gun lobby is advertising against Elena Kagan and Republican opponents are laying out their case against her, but President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee appears just weeks away from Senate confirmation. Judiciary Committee Republicans are expected Tuesday to request a one-week delay before a panel vote to send Kagan’s nomination to the full […]
(New York Times) — Everyone will have a favorite moment from Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing: the nominee’s crack about spending Christmas Day in a Chinese restaurant, for example, or Senator Tom Coburn’s too-clever-by-half effort to draw out her views on the constitutionality of the health-care mandate by asking whether Congress could require every […]
Supreme Court nominee gets the "go head" from NAACP
(NPR) —No fireworks, no gotcha moments, in the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings (thus far), so we might as well focus on something else. Say, how about Thurgood Marshall! Kagan once clerked for Marshall, a former solicitor general who became the court’s first African-American justice in 1967, and somehow Marshall — who left the court in 1991 and […]
GOP emphasize Kagan's connection to Justice Thurgood Marshall in confirmation hearings.
(Politico) — Republicans, who decided early on that they stood little chance of defeating Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, settled instead on making her confirmation process a “teachable moment” to highlight the dangers of liberal judicial activism. But even that modest goal has proved difficult to achieve in the run-up to the opening of her confirmation hearings […]
(The Grio) –He called her Shorty. She called him the most important lawyer of the 20th century. Now, in a case of uncanny timing, the story of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is taking center stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts just as the Senate prepares to take up the nomination of […]
(HuffingtonPost.com) — I don’t have an agenda other than one which represents the people who support me. My supporters are typically black and brown people across America who simply want the truth (although I appreciate support from people who are not black or brown). So, without the political spin, demographic juggling or calculated strategy to […]