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"'95 Article Reveals Kagan's Views on Confirmation"

"'95 Article Reveals Kagan's Views on Confirmation": Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times. The newspaper also contains articles headlined "A New York Bloc on the Supreme Court"; "As Clinton Aide, Kagan Recommended Tactical Support for an Abortion Ban"; and "Court Nominee Figures in Midterm Campaigns."

Today's edition of The Washington Post contains articles headlined "The justice league: Elena Kagan's nomination shows that Ivy roots run deep" and "White House seeks to defend Kagan's diversity record." And in commentary, columnist Ruth Marcus has an op-ed entitled "Advise and wimp out"; columnist Michael Gerson has an op-ed entitled "The mystery of Elena Kagan"; and columnist Kathleen Parker has an op-ed entitled "Elena Kagan is miles away from mainstream America."

The Los Angeles Times contains an article headlined "Kagan would be high court's third -- New Yorker? Both female justices on the Supreme Court hail from New York; What is it about the city? 'The New York woman, she's a striver,' says one expert." And in commentary, law professor Jonathan Turley has an op-ed entitled "Evidence of a Supreme Court bias: Almost all the Supreme Court justices attended law school at either Harvard or Yale, as did President Obama's latest nominee." Turley also has an op-ed entitled "Senate's way is no way to confirm a judicial MVP; Other models: The Vatican, pro baseball and the Academy" in USA Today.

The Boston Globe contains an article headlined "In Kagan stance on military, a complex history."

In The Wall Street Journal, Laura Meckler has an article headlined "Mixed Grades at Harvard Law; Kagan Built Bridges on Divided Campus but Other Factors Helped Her Along." Jess Bravin has an article headlined "Kagan and Key Case: The Jury Is Out." You can freely access the full text of this article via Google News.

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that "Judicial experience a fairly new expectation for Supreme Court." And William Douglas reports that "Kagan nomination could influence November elections."

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined "Supreme Court confirmations, as Elena Kagan saw them: Elena Kagan once urged aggressive questioning of and candid responses from Supreme Court nominees, but has lately backed off those views; Senate Democrats hail her 'diversity of experience'; Republicans question her qualifications."

Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal reports that "Law Review Article Could Spell Trouble for Kagan at Confirmation Hearing; Senators who will be trying to pry Kagan's closely held views out of her at the upcoming confirmation hearing will almost certainly confront Kagan with her own words from long ago."

From NPR, today's broadcast of "Morning Edition" contained an audio segment entitled "Should Kagan's Lack Of Judicial Experience Matter?" featuring Nina Totenberg. Yesterday evening's broadcast of "All Things Considered" contained audio segments entitled "Kagan's Years At Harvard Scrutinized" and "Some On Left Also Oppose Kagan Nomination." NPR also has a written report headlined "Can Kagan Bridge Divided Court? Consensus Is No."

Columnist Konrad Yakabuski of The Toronto Globe and Mail has an op-ed entitled "Kagan nomination reflects Obama's centrist vision; President counting on appointment of proven pragmatist as surest way to correct court's tilt to the right."

And columnist Mike Littwin of The Denver Post has an op-ed entitled "Kagan's not left enough, which makes her just right."

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).