(Politico) — Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy granted Republicans’ request on Tuesday to delay Elena Kagan’s confirmation vote by one week. GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions asked Leahy to hold the vote over until July 20. That vote will send the nomination to the full Senate. Read More…
(NYTimes.com) — In the spring of 1988, Justice Thurgood Marshall assigned a clerk, Elena Kagan, to write a first draft of his opinion in a case considering whether a school district could charge a poor family for busing a child to the nearest school, which was 16 miles away. A majority on the Supreme Court […]
(NYTimes.com) — She was a creature of Manhattan’s liberal, intellectual Upper West Side — a smart, witty girl who was bold enough at 13 to challenge her family’s rabbi over her bat mitzvah, cocky (or perhaps prescient) enough at 17 to pose for her high school yearbook in a judge’s robe with a gavel and […]