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…
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan told Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) that while she admires former Justice Thurgood Marshall, she will be a different justice than he was.
“I don’t want to spend a whole lot of time exactly to what Justice Marshall would have said,” Kagan said. “I love Justice 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
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…
In his opening statement, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) noted that Thurgood Marshall, despite the fact that he graduated first in his law school class, was a highly successful U.S. Solicitor General and had a long list of extraordinary achievements, was grilled during his Supreme Court nomination with More…
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