The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday by a vote of 13-6. All 12 Democrats on the committee supported Kagan, as did Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Six Republicans voted against her nomination. “There’s plenty of reasons for a conservative to vote no, but there’s also one [...]
During his prime-time special a few weeks ago, it took the narcissistic basketball star Lebron James about half an hour to tell the world what it already knew. Things being as windy as they are on Capitol Hill, it took the Senate Judiciary Committee more than two hours longer to do likewise on Tuesday when [...]
In an open letter, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop urges senators to vote against the confirmation of Elena Kagan as Supreme Court justice, citing her work in the Clinton administration on crafting policy regarding partial-birth abortion procedures. Koop’s letter was released Monday by the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, The Wall Street Journal [...]
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have won a one-week delay of a vote on Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, citing the need to review reams of documents related to Kagan’s work in the Clinton administration, as well as written answers to questions from six committee Republicans, which she submitted only Friday. The [...]
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wrote in an op-ed Wednesday that he would vote against Elena Kagan, saying President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court fails his personal test of “integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.” In an opinion piece for USA Today, McCain seized upon accusations that Kagan, as [...]
You are Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and this is your job interview. You sit alone at a small table in the middle of a large and crowded room. A few steps up, facing you and around the sides as well, are 19 feisty human resources directors. Increasingly dysfunctional among themselves, and positively dreary in [...]
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