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Elena Kagan: Next Supreme Court Nominee?
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA Friday morning news bulletin set Washington abuzz with the speculation that President Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday. Mike Allen, who writes a morning briefing widely read by Washington insiders, got the gossip flowing by leading off his Friday Playbook with news that White House aides would be "shocked" if Obama picked anyone besides Kagan. But no one knows if the anonymous aides are correct. The White House has been considering about 10 potential nominees, many of them women. Besides Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and homeland ...
Obama Interviews Diane Wood; Search for Supreme Court Nominee Narrows
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama planned to meet with two senior Senate Republicans on Wednesday amid signs that his search for a new Supreme Court justice to succeed John Paul Stevens is narrowing. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sat down separately at the White House Tuesday with federal appeals court judge Diane Wood of Chicago -- the fourth candidate to be interviewed. Obama talked with Montana appeals judge Sidney Thomas last week and met earlier with Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Washington appeals judge Merrick Garland -- all on the short list for the nomination. The tip-off that the process is ...
The Next Supreme Court Justice: Time for a Politician?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyJudging from the advice that Barack Obama is getting from the sidelines, the president should tap for the Supreme Court a middle-of-the-road, non-activist Protestant woman elected official with judicial experience and temperament who can energize the court's liberal wing without giving conservatives a reason to filibuster her nomination. Gulp! Meeting all those conflicting standards is about as realistic as Obama calling over to Central Casting to demand, "Get me the female version of John Marshall." Especially since this mythical would-be justice also should never have written or said ...
Supreme Court Vacancy: Obama Invites GOP to White House Meeting
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn the faint hope of making some bipartisan headway, President Barack Obama invited two top Senate Republicans to join him and Democratic leaders at the White House next week to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy opened up by the impending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. The White House said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) would sit down on April 21 with the president, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, (D-Vt.). Republican leaders have reacted cautiously to the Stevens vacancy, saying, in effect, they prefer ...
Justice Hillary Clinton? The Top Cases for and Against
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(April 12) -- Even in a town full of heady resumes, Hillary Rodham Clinton's stands out. The secretary of state is, of course, a former presidential candidate, U.S. senator and first lady. Now she may be in the running for yet another impressive seat: U.S. Supreme Court justice. At least if Sen. Orrin Hatch is to be believed. Speaking about the possible names floated to replace outgoing Justice John Paul Stevens, Hatch said on NBC's "Today" show this morning: "I even heard the name Hillary Rodham Clinton today, and that would be an interesting person in the mix. I happen to like Hillary ...
Top Republican Says Filibuster of Supreme Court Nominee 'Unlikely'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySenate Minority Whip Jon Kyl said Sunday he would not take the possibility of using a filibuster to try and block confirmation of whoever President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court "off the table," but he said the chances of Republicans using that tactic was "unlikely." "I am going to abide by what became known as the rule of the gang of 14," Kyl said on ABC's This Week. "It is unlikely that there would be a filibuster, except if there is an extraordinary circumstance." Kyl was referring to the group of seven Democratic and seven Republican senators who joined together to avert a major ...
Next Supreme Court Choice Looms Large
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(April 9) -- We know what Barack Obama will be doing this summer. The president's choice of a successor to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens could be one of the biggest and most politically resonating stories out of Washington this spring. The confirmation process is likely to dominate headlines until and possibly beyond the summer congressional recess. Stevens' retirement comes at a seminal moment in Obama's presidency, on the crest of political momentum from the passage of health care reform and in the looming shadow of November's midterm elections. The lifelong Supreme Court ...
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 ...
Conservative Group Launches Website Focused on Kagan, Wood, and Sotomayor
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe Judicial Confirmation Network, a conservative group that encourages the confirmation of judges who interpret the Constitution -- as opposed to "activist" judges -- has launched a new website, Obama'sFrontrunners.com.The website focuses on Obama's three likely Supreme Court picks:(Elena Kagan)(Diane Wood) (Sonia Sotomayor)Earlier today, JCN issued a press release, saying:It is crucial that the records of Supreme Court potentials such as Kagan, Diane Wood, Sonia Sotomayor, and others be fully vetted and scrutinized so that Americans can have full transparency about them and so that Senators ...
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