"Marshall" hits theaters today.
HU. Can't stop, won't stop. Eh eh.
(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.
(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 […]
(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 […]