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Civil Discourse Institute to Open in Tucson
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyFormer presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, who have joined forces in the past to head disaster relief efforts, are uniting again as honorary chairmen of a new National Institute for Civil Discourse. Formation of the institute, intended to promote compromise among opposing political parties and views, is being announced Monday in Tucson, Ariz., site of a shooting rampage last month that killed six people and wounded 14 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The new organization's director, Brint Milward, told the New York Times that the institute will focus on political ...
Arizona Is the New California, and It's Already Changing Our Lives
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyOnce upon a time, California was the trendsetter for the rest of the country. What happened there tended to spread, whether it was property tax cuts or stringent environmental regulation. But now it's time for the Golden State to exit stage left. We have a new outsized player in national life. It's Arizona, and it's taking us in a whole new direction. The Grand Canyon State has been in the news this year for enacting what's been called the country's toughest immigration law and for Medicaid cutbacks that amount to death sentences for transplant patients. If Arizona's controversial ...
Opinion: Justice O'Connor's Robo Call Apology Isn't Enough
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- Mark Twain is supposed to have said that "there is nothing that cannot happen today." The quote seemed appropriate when we learned that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was the voice behind a campaign robo call that tens of thousands of Nevadans received at 1 a.m. earlier this week. The call was made by a telemarketing firm that has done work for Sen. Harry Reid, was paid for by a group called "Nevadans for Qualified Judges" and urged voters to "Vote yes on Question One." People started wondering: What is Question One? And are judges really allowed to campaign? It's not often that you ...
Elena Kagan Sworn in as 4th Woman in History on Supreme Court
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyShe smiled broadly as admirers stood and applauded. New Yorker Elena Kagan was sworn in Saturday as the Supreme Court's 112th justice, the third woman on the current bench and the fourth female ever to serve on the highest court in the land. Kagan, 50, has never before been a judge at any level, but she has appeared before the Supreme Court as the nation's solicitor general and before that was dean of the Harvard Law School and a counsel to the Clinton White House. Chief Justice John Roberts administered two oaths: one in a ceremony in a conference room at the court with only her family ...
Justice Sotomayor to Publish Memoir
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(July 13) -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will soon add "memoirist" to her distinguished resume. Alfred A. Knopf announced it will publish Sotomayor's account of her life, described as a "coming-of-age memoir by an American daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants." "Sonia Sotomayor has lived a remarkable life, and her achievements will prove an inspiration to readers around the world," Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor in chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, said in a statement. "Hers is a triumph of the Latino experience in America." Mark Wilson, Getty Images Justice Sonia ...
Kagan Rolls Through Hearings; For Arlen Specter, an Angry Finale
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyAll you really need to know about the winding down of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan occurred during an otherwise unremarkable session early Wednesday afternoon. It came in the form of a cri de coeur from a visibly frustrated Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), who was asking a few final questions of his 14th nominee to the high court -- a remarkable achievement. It came from an angry, frail old man who just a few months ago lost what is surely his final election and who will thus not be around on Capitol Hill the next time a president, any president, ...
'Supreme Power': Jeff Shesol's Book on 1930s Court Has Deja Vu Quality
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIt is altogether fitting that Jeff Shesol's magnificent new book, "Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court," is out and about after the release of the high court's controversial Citizens United ruling on campaign finance reform, and before the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing for court nominee Elena Kagan. Shesol's important work serves as a solid narrative link between the past mischief that often has marked the court's role in political life and the silliness that surrounds the ramp-up to Kagan's hearing later month. His rich story also gives us some ...
The Case Against Judicial Elections: Keep Politics Out of the Law
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe single greatest threat to the "rule of law" in America is not President Barack Obama's health care reform or President George W. Bush's terror law tactics. It isn't a bunch of al-Qaeda thugs posing as terrorists. It isn't punitive damage verdicts in civil cases or, far less seriously, "judicial activism" of the sort loosely talked about all the time by the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The biggest single threat to fair and neutral justice is the trend toward partisan judicial elections at the state and local level. Through this practice, tiny pockets of zealous partisans ...
David Souter's Harvard Graduation Speech: One for the Books
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyDavid H. Souter, the perennially reticent, famously dorky former justice of the United States Supreme Court, gave his country a blessing of a speech last Thursday at Harvard University's commencement. In his typical polite, patient, plodding style, he offered to the (probably bored and underappreciative) crowd an extraordinary gift. He delivered to them a thoughtful but firm answer both to the lazy politicians who decry "judicial activism" and to "originalists," like Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who see the Constitution as a contract that must be interpreted only in light of ...
Sandra Day O'Connor: Elena Kagan Should Be Confirmed to Supreme Court
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, is getting some support for her nomination from the Republican side of the bench. Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday that Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general, is "very well qualified academically" and should be confirmed by the Senate. "She'll have to go through the process of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And I don't care who you are, it's a difficult, unpleasant experience for the nominee," O'Connor told anchor George Stephanopoulos. "It's dreadful." O'Connor was the first woman named ...
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