The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted 13-6 to endorse Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation, sending her on to the full Senate for further consideration.
The vote broke largely on partisan lines — all 12 Democrats on the committee voted for Kagan while six of the seven Republicans voted against More…
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) just agreed to postpone committee votes on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Deputy Attorney General nominee James Michael Cole by one week, rescheduling them for July 20.
Ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) had asked for the delay on behalf of committee Republicans, More…
The third day of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings has not been terribly noteworthy thus far, but be prepared — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) just told reporters that GOP senators will grill Kagan on her handling of military recruiters as dean of Harvard Law School during the upcoming More…
At The Washington Post, Dana Milbank notes that Republicans have taken to criticizing Justice Thurgood Marshall as a way of attacking Elena Kagan’s (apparent) judicial philosophy:
As confirmation hearings opened Monday afternoon, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the unusual approach of attacking Kagan because she admired the
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, used his opening statement during Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings in part to hit the nominee on restrictions she placed on military recruiter access while she was dean of Harvard Law School.
“Her actions punished the More…
Political reporters in Washington are preparing for a late night at work sifting through the National Archives’ just-released trove of memos and correspondence written by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The document release — available for public consumption here — is estimated to encompass about 46,500 pages, dating More…
The process is young, but the loudest criticisms of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court have so far come from Republicans leaders wary that she’s never been a judge. Funny that the same inexperience didn’t seem to bother them in 2005 when President Bush nominated Harriet Miers — his More…
It was a bill so uncontroversial that it sailed through both the House and Senate without a single objection before George W. Bush made it law with the stroke of his pen. But this year, a central provision of the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act — the establishment of national More…
Ah, a subject dear to my journalistic heart. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said that the Justice Department disclosed to the Senate Judiciary Committee a list of “seven” circumstances under which military commissions better protect classified information than civilian courts. Holder has previously testified that the differences in procedure are More…
As expected, Republicans this weekend already began threatening trouble for Democrats if President Obama nominates someone left of mainstream to succeed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Stevens announced Friday that he plans to retire from the court this summer.
Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), speaking on MSNBC Sunday, and Jon More…
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