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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 ...
Elena Kagan and John Roberts: Yin and Yang or Two of a Kind?
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThey both attended and excelled at Harvard Law School. They both worked for their respective patron/presidents at the Office of the White House Counsel. He clerked for his predecessor, the late chief justice of the United States, before working in the solicitor general's office. She clerked for the late Justice Thurgood Marshall before making her recent bones at the Supreme Court after becoming the nation's first female solicitor general. ...
Opinion: Pick a Nominee Who Unites Americans
By not in system - AOL News(April 26) -- When President Barack Obama chooses his second Supreme Court nominee, the Senate must determine the kind of justice that nominee would be. The debate about judicial nominees, after all, is really a debate about judicial power and the role federal judges are supposed to play in our system of government. One side in that debate wants judges who will rule the way they want on the issues they care about. The political ends justify the judicial means and the only thing that matters is which side wins. Judges may mangle, manipulate and manhandle the law so long as they deliver ...
Supreme Court Choice: Voters Confident in Obama -- and Republicans
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA majority of voters are confident that President Obama will make a good choice in his nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Still, Obama leads by only a narrow margin when voters are asked whether they trust him more than Senate Republicans to make the right decision, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted April 14-19. Nearly half the respondents said senators would be justified if they filibustered a nomination because of a candidate's views on controversial issues, although a narrow plurality said the Senate should consider a candidate's ...
Court Fight Looms With Talk of Stevens' Departure
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(March 17) -- President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts have been sniping at each other like in-laws with an ax to grind. And now they're potentially on the verge of a major family occasion fraught with tension. Justice John Paul Stevens turns 90 next month and is expected to announce soon whether he will retire from the Supreme Court and kick off a nomination battle for his replacement. Stevens hired only one law clerk for next fall's term instead of the usual complement of four, setting off speculation he will step down. Stevens is the leader of the closely divided court's left ...
Chief Justice Is Latest Critic of Obama's SCOTUS Scold
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 10) -- Add Chief Justice John G. Roberts to a growing list of critics of President Barack Obama's decision to call out the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address in January. Roberts said in an appearance at the University of Alabama law school that he found it "very troubling" that Obama would scold the members of the court while they sat surrounded by lawmakers who were "cheering and hollering." The president pointedly criticized the high court's recent decision in a major campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. While several ...
Chief Justice Troubled by Obama's Jab During State of the Union Address
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyChief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and his fellow justices sat silently when President Obama singled out the high court for criticism in his State of the Union speech. But Roberts said Tuesday he was troubled by the jab at the court's ruling that significantly altered a federal campaign finance law. "The image of having the members of one branch of the government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering, while the court, according to protocol, had to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling," Roberts told University of Alabama law students, ...
D.C. Dish: Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, Attorney General Eric Holder
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyPolitical sightings in D.C. this week show the most powerful must stop to eat like the rest of us. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts lunched at Rasika on Thursday, which is just a mile from court. At the modern Indian restaurant, Roberts ate the signature favorites palak chaat and black cod. No word on who was Roberts' dining companion. At a bigger table in the suburbs on Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder, his daughter and three FBI agents ate lunch at Legal Sea Foods. Holder was dressed casually -- maybe he was off for Veterans Day? Holder and his daughter ordered crab ...
What if Roberts or Alito Had Made Ginsburg's Abortion Comment?
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe New York Times and its liberal agenda hit an all-time low when it ran a Sunday magazine story in which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she assumed after Roe v. Wade that more women would be aborting babies who came from "populations that we don't want to have too many of" -- and neither the reporter nor her editors questioned or highlighted the comment. When I read Melinda Henneberger's piece about the NY Times story, I emailed her "jaw. on. floor." Yet Melinda's piece - in which she clearly tried to give Bazelon the benefit of the doubt and the chance to defend herself - did not ...
Joe Biden Apologizes To John Roberts for Joke
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn the wake of the bungled oath of office administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden let fly with what he thought was a light-hearted ribbing at Roberts for his failed attempt to recite the passage from the constitution from memory. Watch:President Obama was none too amused, and seemed to glare at his right-hand-man in an attempt to let him know he did not appreciate the remark. After all, Obama had gone out of his way to be gracious to Roberts, saying that he and the Chief Justice had helped each other through the 15 word ...
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