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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 ...
After Stevens, Who Will Lead Court Liberals?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 5) -- Who will be the next liberal leader of the U.S. Supreme Court? As Justice John Paul Stevens strongly hinted in interviews this week that he would step down soon after more than 34 years on the high court, the question is more than merely rhetorical. Stevens turns 90 on April 20. While he could go for the record as the nation's longest-serving Supreme Court justice, he has hired only one clerk for next term instead of the usual four, a telltale sign he is considering hanging up his black robe for good. Charles Dharapak, AP Justice John Paul Stevens hinted this week ...
Justice Ginsburg Would Do Away With Election of State Judges
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday that judges at the state level should not be elected, but she did not explain what system she would recommend as an alternative. "If there's a reform I would make, it would be that," Ginsburg said in a panel discussion held by the National Association of Women Judges, according to the Washington Post. State judicial elections often produce lackluster campaigns and low vote totals on Election Day, as many voters know little about the candidates. But that's how most states pick their judges, from the lowest level to the state supreme ...
Which Justice Loves Egg McMuffins?
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 11) -- Apparently, sitting on the nation's highest court doesn't mean you give up cravings for fast food. Author Bill Geerhart reveals the guilty culinary pleasures of America's Supreme Court justices in a satirical new book titled "Little Billy's Letters." Posing as a 10-year-old boy, Geerhart wrote letters to several members of the court beginning in the early 1990s, routinely asking a series of silly questions of the justices, including "What is your favorite McDonald's food?" "I like the Egg McMuffin," responded Justice Clarence Thomas. "Actually, I like almost everything ...
Speculation Begins to Build About an Obama Court
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Feb. 5) – With so much else going on, there's been little time during the first year of the Obama administration to ask a perennial question of presidential politics: What's likely to happen to the Supreme Court? ABC News weighed in Thursday with speculation that two liberal Supreme Court justices – John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg – could step down during Obama's first term. Stevens, 89, didn't hire a full team of clerks for the spring. He also told reporters, "This can't be news. I'm not a kid." And Ginsburg, 76, has undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer. ...
Abortion, Eugenics and the Meaning of Margaret Sanger
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyThere is a disquieting reason Ruth Bader Ginsburg's defenders have been denying, however implausibly, the clear meaning of the Supreme Court justice's recent remarks about the history of abortion law, and that reason is this: Historically, eugenics has always been a significant component of the intellectual underpinnings – and political impetus – of the movement to legalize abortion. ...
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 ...
Why Emily Bazelon Didn't Follow Up on Ginsburg's Abortion Comment
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyI keep reading about how "bizarre'' it is that there was no follow-up question after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Emily Bazelon, in an interview for The New York Times Magazine, that she originally assumed legalizing abortion would decrease the number of poor people having babies; she said she thought Roe v. Wade would answer "concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.'' (There was a follow-up question from Bazelon, actually, but it was this: "When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, ...
Ginsburg, Roe and Population Control
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyLike Ria, I was happy to hear Ruth Bader Ginsburg announce herself a product of affirmative action. In her interview with The New York Times Magazine, Justice Ginsburg says that Columbia University's 1972 decision to offer her tenure as a law professor was motivated by politics. It would be another decade before my alma mater would admit its first female student in the fall of 1983. But it was Justice Ginsburg's comment on another bullet point on the feminist movement's CV that had me reading, then re-reading and then re-reading again. In 1973, one year after her tenure at Columbia began, the ...
Ginsburg's Affirmative Action Lesson
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyWhy is anyone surprised at Ruth Bader Ginsburg's statement that she was considered for a position at Columbia because of affirmative action? As Ria states in her post, affirmative action didn't make her smart or prepared or exceptional. She already possessed those qualities. It just put her name on the list. ...
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