Posted on 05/10/2010 3:54:54 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Introducing his Supreme Court nominee to the nation, President Barack Obama on Monday portrayed Elena Kagan as a guiding force for a fractured court and a champion of typical Americans. She would be the youngest justice on the court and give it three women for the first time in history.
Less excited, Republican senators said they would give the nomination a long, hard look in potentially contentious summertime confirmation hearings. One declared he would oppose her, but Democrats hold a strong majority of Senate seats, making eventual approval likely.
In choosing Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general and a former dean of Harvard Law School, Obama sought someone he hopes will seal majority votes on a divided court, as the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens sometimes had the ability to do. The president, who said Kagan has "one of the nation's foremost legal minds," wanted someone who could counter the court's conservative leaders as well as sway votes with her thinking and temperament.
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Gotta love the headline.....having X number of women is the important thing. Upholding th Constitution? Probably a distant 9th in order of importance.
“She would be the youngest justice on the court and give it three women for the first time in history.”
They really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to make things “historic” these days. Wow, the first time there’s been three! How could we have ever dreamed of such a feat back when there were merely two? I told my children to stay healthy, in the hopes that one day they’d live to see three. Little did I know it was coming faster than we could ever imagine.
Her gender is debateable.
I don’t know. As Mark Levin is fond of saying “Now we have three (STATE GENITALIA HERE)on the Supreme Court.”
That will fix what is wrong with the Republic!
‘Champion for typical Americans’?
Only if your ‘typical American’ is an Ivy League liberal
AND NO VETERANS!!!!
AND NO WHITE MALE PROTESTANTS!!!!
I get this feeling this confirmation battle is going to be more theatrical than the last few. Anyone care to bet on whether the nominee will out herself in front of Congress?
Barry the bastard isn’t appointing to uphold the Constitution. He’s absolutely appointing those whom he knows will change ... we no longer live in a We The People Constitutional Republic. Barry the bastard is just solidifying federal oligarchical rule through the subPreme Court.
“AND NO WHITE MALE PROTESTANTS!!!!”
No Protestants......period!
I just prefer that it would just out itself out the door and not let the door hit it on the way out.
But I thought Souter had the “homosexual” seat.
Some analysis
Count the women or minorities.
it'll take a gender test to prove it to me...
Court will now be either Jewish or Catholic.
hmmm
But not one Protestant Christian despite more than half of the population claims to be Protestant.
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