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 Supreme Court: Elena Kagan Gets Obama’s Nod (Update: Video)Posted on May 9, 2010
Much will be pored over and found and reported on Elena Kagan in the coming months. Right now the important bit is this: She’s a former Harvard Law dean, current U.S. solicitor general and President Obama’s choice to sit on the highest court in the land. Oh, and Thurgood Marshall called her “Shorty.”
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By doublestandards/glasshouses, May 10, 2010 at 2:26 pm Link to this comment
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A democwat can’t appoint a real leftist to the scotus ‘cause it’s not nice. Republicans on the other hand don’t have to wouwy about being nice.
Report thisBush ‘41 couldn’t get Bork confirmed but at least he had the balls to nominate him.
By NYCartist, May 10, 2010 at 1:13 pm Link to this comment
Read Marjorie Cohn on Kagan, on http://www.truthout.com or her own site http://www.marjoriecohn.com
Report thisAnd, Glenn Greenwald on http://www.democracynow.org this morning or his own site on Salon.com
By omop, May 10, 2010 at 11:43 am Link to this comment
Obama no fool. He doeth knoweth who are the real people in charge and he is
told what to do:
Just the facts accoding to several statisticians in America, 35% of the richest
men in America were Jews. America’s 400 richest men, according to a report in
the New York Times (March 23, 2009), own as much as 22% of the nation’s
total wealth, and around [37%]140 of these multibillionaires are Jews.
According to statistical experts the Jewish population in the US is 2% of the
total estimated population of the USA in 2009.
As a famous Anonymous siad:- ” He who holds the gold makes da rules”.
Report thisBy ofersince72, May 10, 2010 at 11:24 am Link to this comment
Pity The Children is exactly right..
Obama just nominated Goldman-Sachs to the Supreme Court!!
Report thisBy Pity the children, May 10, 2010 at 8:20 am Link to this comment
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I can’t believe that Obama has such a tin ear that he’s picked a Goldman Sachs advisor to another branch of government. This would mean the firm would have a physical presence in all three branches of our government.
At a time when the only appropriate Federal facility for Goldman Sachs executives and their advisors is a federal prison, it is simply astonishing that Obama calculates that he can get away with this move.
If Obama’s right—and he hasn’t lost a thing so far by assuming that the average American is a stupid fool—Americans will have lost yet another generation of good legal rulings.
But unless you were alive during the era of Earl Warren, you don’t know what a worthwhile Supreme Court is like.
Report thisBy ofersince72, May 10, 2010 at 6:31 am Link to this comment
It won’t be too long before they do what they did
in the fifties, soon we will have once again
Select Committee on Unamerican Activities, Probably
Report thisheaded by none other than Joseph Lieberman.
By thebeerdoctor, May 10, 2010 at 6:22 am Link to this comment
President Obama probably likes the idea of being the first Presidency to have 3 women on the Supreme Court.
Report thisBy omop, May 10, 2010 at 6:17 am Link to this comment
Definitely an ideal candidate. If criticised one can be assured of being called,
“antisemitic’; no paper trail of past judicial decisions thereby minimizing any
major contentious questioning; a female thereby voiding any sexist or sexual
harrasement views. And a lesbian.
If Ms. Kagan is the best of the best candidates to be a member of the US Supreme
Report thisCourt then America has truly and indeedly changed.
By ofersince72, May 10, 2010 at 6:15 am Link to this comment
Glen Greenwald, where ever you are, thank you,
Report thisYou tried your damndest.
As I have said before, screw Obama and Holder.
and the whole Democrat Party.!!!!!!!!!!!!
By rico, suave, May 10, 2010 at 5:14 am Link to this comment
I love another quote from the same Washington Post article: “Obama hopes she’ll provide a counterweight to the intellectual heft of Chief Justice Roberts…”
What exactly does that imply??
I’m not sure I’d have put it that way.
Report thisBy Will, May 10, 2010 at 4:09 am Link to this comment
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I’ve heard that she’s largely in-line with the view of a supreme executive and
that’s Obama is giving her the nod. Despite railing against the rise of executive
power and getting votes for his “stance” in 2008, Obama quickly and quietly
reversed himself.
“That’s not only because she’s never been a judge, but also because (a) her
academic career is surprisingly and disturbingly devoid of writings or speeches on
most key legal and Constitutional controversies, and (b) she has spent the last
year as Obama’s Solicitor General, where (like any lawyer) she was obligated to
defend the administration’s policies regardless of whether she agreed with them.”
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/13/kagan
Report thisBy brewerstroupe, May 10, 2010 at 12:33 am Link to this comment
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
Even Goering got a trial.
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