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Elena Kagan Is Obama's Supreme Court Nominee : NPR - 0 views

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    Kagan Likely To Be Pressed On Writings, Experience
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Elena Kagan's Biography, Published Writings, and Net Worth - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Elena Kagan's Questionnaire for Her Nomination as Solicitor General
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Elena Kagan: Four Potential Confirmation Hurdles - Political Hotsheet - CBS News - 0 views

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    Elena Kagan: Four Potential Confirmation Hurdles
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How Elena Kagan Saved New York | Post-Partisan | WaPo Blog - 0 views

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    "Solicitor General Elena Kagan, a born-and-bred New Yorker, may not realize it, but her selection as President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court is a boost for her hometown, which has pretty much been awash in unwelcome news for more than a week."
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Why Elena Kagan won't be the next Harriet Miers - Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Nominee - ... - 0 views

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    Obama made a safe pick: He wanted Kagan to have an easy path to the court. And it looks like that's exactly what she'll have. No Senator will buck the tide in an election year.
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Elena Kagan: We Need an Assertive Liberal Counterweight to Scalia ~ Not a Mediator (or ... - 0 views

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    "What the Court needs right now is someone who will fight for the rights of people who aren't part of the upper crust. What we need to hear is that Elena Kagan knows how to stand firm and doesn't think that compromise is the only way out of disagreement or that making the other side happy no matter how closed minded and belligerent they are is somehow admirable. We've had enough of that lately."
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The Diversity Scam and the Supreme Court | The Weekly Standard - 0 views

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    "little wonder with such insular backgrounds that justices of the Supreme Court should be tempted to lay down the terms of existence for 300 million Americans. "
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Why Bother With the Constitution? Elena Kagan and Our Constitution : NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    It's Supreme Court nomination time again, which means that it will soon be nomination hearing time, which means that Elena Kagan will soon be asked how she believes the Constitution should be interpreted. But just in time comes a new book - "The Living Constitution," by David A. Strauss - that tells us not to bother about that question because, odd though it might seem, the Constitution does not play a central role in constitutional interpretation.
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Just Answer the Question - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "the question of whether to foreclose access to court for citizens seeking to vindicate their rights is very much alive"
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Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits | Raw Story - 0 views

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    Kagan: Lawsuits against Saudi princes by 9/11 victims interfere with foreign relations, shouldn't be heard:
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CIA Psychologists Complicit in the Torture of Political and Military Detainees - Pravda.Ru - 0 views

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    "CIA Psychologists Complicit in the Torture of Political and Military Detainees"
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Justice Dept. Backs Saudi Royal Family on 9/11 Lawsuit - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "The Obama administration is supporting efforts by the Saudi royal family to defeat a long-running lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "
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Kagan Urged Clinton to Ban Late Abortions in 1997 - 0 views

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    Elena Kagan urged the president to support a ban on late-term abortions for what appear to be purely political reasons
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Who Cares if Elena Kagan is a Lesbian? Progressives Shouldn't Keep This Argument Alive ... - 0 views

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    "Kagan's sexual orientation is irrelevant. The only side this line of questioning helps is the far right, who have already mounted a whisper campaign about her sexuality. "
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Good News: Kagan May Not Be a Giant Shill For State Power « SpeakEasy - 0 views

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    Kagan may not be a giant shill for state power; but she'll be easier to confirm if progressives don't know this « http://bit.ly/bWqOdy
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Baffling Market Plunge - Is There a Shady Game of Market Manipulation At Work... - 0 views

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    5 days later, no one knows what went wrong on May 6th.
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Don't invade Kagan's privacy - Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Nominee - Salon.com - 0 views

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    "Elena Kagan is a legal scholar and advocate, not a gay-baiting politician. Her sexuality should not be an issue "
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The Associated Press: Biden: Kagan will have strong bipartisan support - 0 views

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    "Vice President Joe Biden is predicting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will win Senate confirmation with "strong bipartisan support.""
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Shifting to the Right: USA 1950 to Present - 0 views

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    "Political migration to the right has resulted in a weakening of individuals' rights and transferred political, economic and legislative power to multi-national corporations and the upper class."
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Vetting Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan | NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Vetting Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan"
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