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Kagan Confirmed to the Supreme Court: Instant Reactions
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- Now that Elena Kagan has been confirmed to the Supreme Court, the Senate is ready to take its five-week summer vacation. On Thursday afternoon, the Senate confirmed Kagan, a former solicitor general and dean of Harvard Law School, as the fourth woman ever to sit on the country's highest judicial body with a vote of 63-37. Kagan won five votes from the Republican Party, including those of Sen. Lindsey Graham of Kentucky and Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska was the lone Democrat to vote against Kagan's nomination, making himself the first ...
Senate to Vote on Kagan Today; Confirmation Likely
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 4) -- Solicitor General Elena Kagan cleared the key hurdle Wednesday evening when she locked up commitments from 60 senators -- 53 Democrats, five Republicans and two independents -- to support her nomination to become the next member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Reaching the 60-vote threshold guaranteed that Republicans could not mount a filibuster against her nomination, and assured that she would be confirmed when the Senate takes its final vote on Thursday. ...
Thurgood Marshall Jr. on Kagan: 'She's Her Own Person' and 'Scary Smart'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThurgood Marshall Jr. is a Washington lawyer and the son of the late Justice Thurgood Mashall, the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court. I spoke to the younger Marshall following the first day of Senate confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan to join the high court. Marshall attended the hearings as a longtime friend and former colleague of Kagan's. Not only does he know her from her days as a Supreme Court law clerk for his father, Marshall also worked as Cabinet secretary to President Bill Clinton when Kagan worked in the White House counsel's office. During Monday's ...
Kagan Pledges to Be Unbiased, Deferential to Congress
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 28) -- Elena Kagan pledged to be a model of impartiality and restraint as a Supreme Court justice as the Senate opened confirmation hearings Monday, but she still braced for a grilling by Republicans who suggest she'd let liberal views color her rulings. Breaking weeks of public silence since President Barack Obama nominated her to be the fourth woman in the court's history, Kagan called the Supreme Court "a wondrous institution" but one with limited powers under the Constitution. She billed herself as a consensus-builder for the ideologically polarized court and said she'd ...
NRA Discourages Board Members From Testifying Against Kagan
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn the eve of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan -- and for the second time in two weeks -- the National Rifle Association (NRA) is under fire from conservatives. According to RedState's Erick Erickson, a prominent conservative blogger, "internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members show that the National Rifle Association's management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA's board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment issues" during the Kagan hearings. It turns out that during the confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court ...
Senate Hearings Begin for Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court confirmation hearing for nominee Elena Kagan, which begins Monday at 12:30 p.m. in Room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building, will look familiar to those who have followed the recent parade of High Court candidates to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kagan is the fourth such candidate in five years -- Chief Justice John Roberts (2005) and Justices Samuel Alito (2006) and Sonia Sotomayor (2009) were previously trotted out before the Committee -- so its members are practiced at exercising the Senate's "advice and consent" role under the Constitution. If Kagan is ...
Why Elena Kagan Was Right to Boot Military Recruiters From Harvard Law
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyThis week, as they question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan about her views of the Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans will focus on Kagan's outspoken opposition to allowing military recruiters on campus when she was dean of Harvard Law School from 2003-2009. "This policy at Harvard about not allowing military recruiters to come to the law school is going to be problematic for most Americans," Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican on the committee predicted yesterday. "She's going to have to explain that." One would assume Kagan is prepared to do so, as this ...
GOP's Kagan Strategy: Focus on 'Judicial Activism'
By not in system - AOL News(June 27) -- Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee made clear Sunday that they will use confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to zero in on concerns that she would be a judicial activist and bring to the court an "expansionist" view of government. ...
Republicans to Focus on Whether Elena Kagan Would be a Judicial Activist
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee made clear Sunday that they will use confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to zero in on concerns that she would be a judicial activist and bring to the court an "expansionist" view of government. The most serious objections were voiced by Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the committee, who also targeted Kagan's lack of judicial background. Kagan has never been a federal judge and, aside from her tenure as Dean of Harvard's Law School and a clerk for the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, her major positions ...
Republicans Zero In on Kagan's Stance on Military Recruiting at Harvard
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPreviewing one of the issues certain to come up during confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans made clear Sunday that Kagan's actions as dean of Harvard Law School in banning military recruiters would be a major point of contention. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said on ABC's This Week that Kagan's record on the military recruitment issue is "no little bitty matter," while committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), called it "sound and fury signifying nothing." The law school had adopted a policy in ...
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