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WASHINGTON (Oct. 4) -- The Supreme Court is starting its new term with a new justice, Elena Kagan, and bad news for hundreds of parties trying to get their cases heard at the nation's highest court. The justices are expected to start work Monday by denying many of the nearly 2,000 appeals that piled up in recent months. The court also is hearing argument in a bankruptcy dispute and an appeal by criminal defendants seeking shorter prison terms. Supreme Court of the United States Elena Kagan, here with President Barack Obama, begins her first term on the Supreme Court on Monday. During the ...
Elena Kagan's Supreme Court Investiture Set for Today
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyElena Kagan was quietly sworn in nearly two months ago as the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, but there will be pomp and circumstance today when a formal investiture ceremony takes place at 2 p.m. The ceremony is a formal affair, CNN reports, where the authority of the office is conferred. The Senate confirmed Kagan, 63-37, Aug. 5 on a mostly party-line vote. Among the cases she will confront in her first term will be disputes over noisy protests at military funerals, state bans on violent video games and the death penalty. Kagan, 50, the former dean of Harvard Law School, pledged to ...
Supreme Court Preview: Kagan Debuts, but Kennedy Is Still Center Stage
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWhen the United States Supreme Court ended the 2010 spring term in late June, the justices were mired in sadness. Martin Ginsburg, beloved husband of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a popular and powerful figure in Washington apart from his famous spouse, had just died. And Justice John Paul Stevens, the genteel veteran of 35 spring terms, had just retired. After a particularly rancorous term, which included a landmark campaign finance ruling and a concomitant public rebuke from the president, the justices were clearly ready for their summer vacation. But one of the many permanent things ...
Kagan Faces First Vote on High Court Confirmation
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 20) -- Elena Kagan is facing the first vote on her nomination to the Supreme Court before a Senate panel dominated by Democrats who are all but certain to support her. The only real question is whether she will get any Republican votes. The Senate Judiciary Committee is meeting Tuesday to take up Kagan's nomination after a week's delay at the request of Republican lawmakers. Democrats hold a 12-7 advantage on the committee. President Barack Obama nominated Kagan, a 50-year-old New York native, to take the seat of Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired in June after more than ...
Kagan Declines to Criticize Roberts Court
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 30) -- Elena Kagan declined an invitation to criticize the current Supreme Court on Wednesday, testifying at the third day of her confirmation hearings, "I'm sure everyone up there is acting in good faith." In a lengthy exchange with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Kagan said pointedly she didn't agree with the Rhode Island Democrat's analysis that justices appointed by Republican presidents were "driving the law in a new direction by the narrowest possible margins" in a series of 5-4 rulings. The exchange occurred as Kagan returned to the witness chair for another long day of ...
Kagan Insists She Didn't Block Military at Harvard
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 29) -- Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan maneuvered carefully through tough Republican questioning on military recruitment at Harvard Law School, gun owners' rights and free speech Tuesday, giving little ground to critics and drawing strong praise from Senate Democrats who command the votes to confirm her. In a long day of questioning at a hearing that stretched into the evening, Kagan came under fire from Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, for her decision as dean of Harvard Law to bar recruiters from the school's career services office ...
Elena Kagan Confirmation Process
By Joseph Schuman - Politics DailyArticle II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives presidents the power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court with the "advice and consent" of the Senate. On May 10, when President Barack Obama sent to the Senate his nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, he set in motion a process that has turned those three words into one of the biggest recurring political spectacles of Washington. A Supreme Court confirmation can help define a president's place in history and influence constitutional law for decades to come, but its more immediate ...
Elena Kagan Confirmation Vote
By David Knowles - Politics Daily(July 20)--The "ayes" have it. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee surprised no one and voted to advance Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court to a full vote on the Senate floor. Thirteen Senators voted in favor of Kagan, and six against. Only Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) crossed party lines, giving Kagan his approval. "No one spent more time trying to beat President Obama than I did except maybe Senator McCain," Graham said in explaining his vote. "But I understood -- we lost, President Obama won. The Constitution in my view puts an requirement on me not to replace my judgment ...
Supreme Court Backs Use of Broad Law in Terrorism Prosecutions
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe United States Supreme Court gave the executive branch on Monday one of its biggest in-court victories in the legal war on terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001, by endorsing an expansive and deferential view of the government's oft-used "material support" law. By a vote of 6-3, the court declared that the workhorse criminal statute -- widely used, and successfully so, since the Twin Towers fell -- did not violate the First Amendment or the due process clause of the Constitution. Justice John Paul Stevens, in one of the final cases of his 35-year career, joined the court's five-member ...
Supreme Court Rules Against Beachfront Owners in Dispute With Florida
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe state of Florida does not have to compensate beachfront property owners who argued that their property values were hurt by a state-sponsored erosion control project, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The 8-0 decision affirming a lower court opinion went against six homeowners in the Florida Panhandle who complained about a beach-widening plan, the Associated Press reported. Nearly seven miles of new sand near water's edge on a storm-battered beach stretching through Destin, Fla., and neighboring Walton County can now be designated as public property. That deprives the homeowners of their ...
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