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Opinion: Will the Real Elena Kagan Show Up at Her Confirmation?
By not in system - AOL News(June 28) -- President Barack Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, presumably because she shares his judicial philosophy. Yet when Kagan's confirmation begins, you can bet that she will sound more like Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. The reason is simple. Kagan, Obama and the senators who'll vote on her confirmation all know that the American public won't accept a judicial nominee who wants to rewrite the Constitution to reflect her personal view on important public policy issues. And the public generally takes a more conservative view on issues like the scope of the ...
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 ...
Senate Confirms Two Dozen Obama Appointees
By David Sessions - Politics DailyBefore taking leave for the Presidents' Day weekend, the Senate on Thursday night unanimously confirmed 20 of President Obama's appointees for government positions, the New York Times reports. Republicans had been blocking many of the appointees, but earlier this week Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) removed his hold on over 70 of them, and Obama warned he might use the holiday to make recess appointments if other Republicans did not relent. In a statement Thursday night, Obama said that the votes were "a good first step," but added that "there are still dozens of nominees on hold who deserve a ...
A New Tactic for Supreme Court Nominees: Straight Talk
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThis may surprise faithful readers, but I may have a contrarian view about what the confirmation vote of Sonia Sotomayor means -- or more to the point, what the votes against confirmation mean. Instead of the pablum we're being fed, we should demand a healthy dish of judicial activism. ...
John McCain Rejects Sonia Sotomayor
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailySenator John McCain, once applauded by Barack Obama for his moderate politics and "bipartisan accomplishments," announced Monday he will oppose Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the President's nominee for Supreme Court associate justice, in the Senate confirmation vote this week. ...
Sotomayor: Strict Constructionist and Budding Conservative?
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyMaybe it's time for a contrarian view. Is anybody else concerned about Sonia Sotomayor chanting that she simply follows the law? "It is very clear that I don't base my judgment on my personal experiences." Is she serious? ...
Sotomayor Still Making the Rounds
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHer ankle's broken and her visits aren't quite grabbing the headlines that they used to, but Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be back on Capitol Hill today meeting with senators. Here's the list: ...
AG Nominee Eric Holder Vows No Guantanamo Torture Prosecutions
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Obama's choice to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder, won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a lopsided 17-2 vote. That much was not surprising. His nomination will now be considered by the full Senate; where despite some questions about his role in the Clinton Justice Department, he will likely be confirmed. What is surprising, however, is the pledge that Holder reportedly made to Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee to gain a majority of their support. Holder promised not to bring prosecutions against ...
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. ...
Hillary Clinton, No Longer a Victim
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyHillary Clinton was officially relieved of her victimhood today, as Republicans and Democrats at her Senate confirmation hearing mostly competed to see who could register the greater delight in her nomination as President-elect Obama's secretary of state. Republican Senator Richard Lugar, of Indiana, referred to her as "the epitome of a Big-Leaguer." While his colleague Bob Corker gushed that "I'm just a junior senator from Tennessee, but it seems to me that everything has its season, and this is your season." That'll teach her.Of course, in their reduced circumstances, the GOP had nothing to ...
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