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Opinion: Judicial Activism Has a New Face
By Ian Millhiser - AOL News(July 2) -- If you want to make a progressive tremble, yell "judicial activist" and laugh as they cower under their desk in fear. At least, that's been the pattern for the past two decades of judicial confirmation hearings. So when Elena Kagan took her seat at the beginning of her confirmation hearing, her opponents were pretty confident. Sure, the Senate's lopsided majority made defeating Kagan unlikely, but her opponents thought they would get the next-best thing: a weeklong infomercial on judicial conservatism. This time, however, the infomercial got canceled. While their more ...
Kagan 'Pragmatic, Thoughtful,' Sen. Snowe Says After Meeting
By Justine Jablonska - Politics DailyOne month, one week and one day remain until Senate confirmation hearings begin for Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. Kagan continued her round of meetings with senators on Thursday, meeting with Republicans Olympia Snowe of Maine and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire as well as Democrats Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Barbara Boxer of California. After a nearly hour-long meeting with Kagan, Snowe praised her temperament and qualifications, adding that she'll continue evaluating Kagan's views and writings and that Kagan's ...
John Cornyn: Elena Kagan Documents Key to Confirmation Process
By Mari Fagel - Politics DailySen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is insisting the Senate review documents from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's time in the Clinton administration before holding a confirmation hearing. Kagan served as both a lawyer and policy adviser to President Bill Clinton. Cornyn said the 160,000 pages the White House has requested from the Clinton Presidential Library are essential to determining Kagan's judicial views and opinions. "I think it would be a mistake to hold the hearing until we have a chance to see those documents and any other documents that might exist," said Cornyn. "Because she has no ...
The Kagan Nomination: Not Like the Good Old Days
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyOn March 19, 1939, moments before he asked William O. Douglas to join the United States Supreme Court, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the brilliant administrator: "I have a new job for you...It's a mean job, a dirty job, a thankless job. It's a job you'll detest. This job is something like being in jail. Tomorrow I am sending your name to the Senate as Louis Brandeis' successor." Less than one month later, Douglas was sworn onto the Court, where he would sit in judgment on the American scene for a remarkable 36 years and 209 days, a longevity record then and now. The brief history of ...
Kagan and Inhofe: The 'Vapid and Hollow' Confirmation Battle
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyGive Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) credit at least for not wasting anyone's time or money. Before the sun had set on the very first day of the official candidacy of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for a seat on the United States Supreme Court, the senator from the aptly named Sooner State had declared he would oppose her nomination. Team Kagan won't be pitching a shutout after all. "I am . . . concerned about the seeming contempt she has demonstrated in her comments about the Senate confirmation process," Inhofe wrote in a release issued Monday afternoon. ". . . [I]t is concerning that the ...
Sotomayor's Personal Views on Abortion: Why, Again, Do We Care?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyHere's my abortion question, not for Sonia Sotomayor, but for the Senate Judiciary Committee: If all of you are so confident that the judges you tend to agree with decide cases strictly on the law, with all personal opinions left in hermetically sealed containers back home in the freezer, then why is every one of you is so determined to get Supreme Court nominees to talk about their private views on this topic in particular? ...
SCOTUS: Conservative Talking Points Tame Compared to Trashings Past
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyMatt Lewis reported yesterday on the opposition research memorandum prepared by the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network and distributed widely to supporters on the right. The memo offers critical profiles of three potential nominees President Obama is said to be considering for the Supreme Court seat of retiring Justice David Souter. The front-runner candidates, Solicitor General Elena Kagan and appeals court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Wood, "are not moderates [nor] ... pragmatists. They are hard-left liberal judicial activists," according to memo authors Gary Marx, JCN's ...
Eric Holder's Confirmation as Attorney General Postponed
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyThe Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed the confirmation vote for Eric Holder until sometime next week. The delay came after Republicans asked for another week to consider Holder for attorney general. That caused a bit of a dust-up between Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania."They've really been at each others' throats for several days now over this," reported Terry Frieden, CNN's senior justice producer. Republicans have the right to ask for more time. But that doesn't mean Leahy and the Democrats have to be happy about it. ...
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