Howard Dean: I can’t shake the feeling that Obama’s advisors are out of touch with the country
"The people around the president have really misjudged what goes on elsewhere in the country."
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Chris Wallace to Howard Dean: Why are you blaming Fox for what happened to Sherrod?
"Fox News did something that was absolutely racist."
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Gingrich: Obama Should Withdraw Kagan Nomination
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called on President Obama to withdraw the nomination of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, calling her views anti-military and airing, for one of the first times, concerns that during her time as Dean, Harvar...
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Bella DePaulo: Beyond the Gay: Elena Kagan and What We Still Don’t Get About People Who Are Single
Elena Kagan. Her nomination to the Supreme Court has set off a cascade of intimations and accusations, reflections and critiques, that all add up to...
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Karen Finney: The Supreme Court and 2010
Get ready to rumble. While most on Capitol Hill are admitting that Solicitor General Elena Kagen will likely be confirmed, both sides are still gearing...
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Kagan Nomination: Important, Brief Time to Contemplate the Judicial Branch
By Amanda Cohen Leiter, Associate Professor, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America
Many others have extolled Justice John Paul Stevens and described the large shoes that Elena Kagan will have to fill if confirmed. I will not add to their comments here. (I note, though, that few of us are as qualified to evaluate Kagan's aptitude for the task -- or her progressive credentials, for that matter -- as the man who appointed her, who has more than a passing familiarity with constitutional law and has also had occasion to question Kagan closely and privately on her judicial philosophy and her beliefs on a range of matters.)
I write instead to highlight a little-heralded but enormously important consequence of the Founders' idea of requesting the Senate's advice and consent on Supreme Court nominees: For a few days around each nomination, a quiet but extremely powerful branch of government, scrutinized in Washington but largely disregarded outside the Beltway, finds itself in the limelight, and the public is given the opportunity to consider both the role that branch plays in our lives and the characteristics we would like to see in those who serve it.
For those short days, we all take the time to ask ourselves whether a Justice should have prior judicial experience; whether she should be empathetic to the parties before the court or impartial and umpire-like; whether she should be a scholar or a practitioner; whether, in this particular case, her skills as a manager and a resolver of conflicts (being a successful Dean of a notoriously fractious law school necessarily called upon those skills) will help her bridge gaps and find points of agreement on the Court; and whether her gender, age, race, and religion should count for her, or against her, or not at all. No matter how we each answer those questions, we should be honored and grateful that our Constitution invites us all, albeit indirectly, to have thoughts on these issues. It is that invitation, and our participation in the resulting discussions and debates, that give the Court its legitimacy, and lend truth to Kagan's observation, on accepting her nomination, that "law ... is the foundation of our democracy."
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Brian Levin, J.D.: The President’s Different and Enigmatic Supreme Court Choice
Elena Kagan, who the President has selected as the next associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court in some ways resembles the President who...
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