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Via CNN:
Solicitor General Elena Kagan was easily confirmed Thursday as the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, completing the 50-year-old native New Yorker’s climb to the peak of the American legal profession.The 63-37 vote was more than enough to blunt any possibility of a last-minute Republican delay or filibuster. Opposition during three days of Senate floor debate was relatively subdued.
Kagan is set to begin a lifetime position as the nation’s 112th justice. Administration officials anticipate she will sworn into office Saturday, when she takes the traditional constitutional and judicial oaths. She will then assume her court duties immediately.
Via the New York Daily News:
Senate Republicans made a last stand against the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan on Wednesday while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was pumped at welcoming another woman to the high bench.“To me, it’s one of the most exhilarating developments,” Ginsburg told The Associated Press about the prospect of Kagan making it three women on the court for the first time, along with herself and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Harkening back to the Wall Street Journal‘s famous Elena Kagan “Softboall Photo”, Twitter commenter pourmecoffee made this snarky comment of note:
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Congratulations!I read somewhere that Ruth Bader Ginsburg would not retire till there was another woman on the court so as to not leave Sonia Sotomayor in the situation she (RBG) was in when Sandra Day O’Connor retired. Anyone have a source for that? I’m looking.
I expect RBG to stay on board one more year and at least give Obama the chance (his last? I’m being cynical) to nominate and get confirmation of her replacement.
Three women!Now, how many years until we see four? How many centuries until we see five?
I’m still not convincedthat we have an ally in Kagan should the Prop 8 case make its way to the Supreme Court.
I’m not, eitherI think she’ll be a right-of-center judge, in keeping with Obama’s policies.
i’m dubious for other reasonsSome of her writings suggested she is a supporter of the unitary-presidency theory, which puts the President above the law, at least on matters of national security. It’s one of the nastier legacies of the Bush years, and it seems to have a long half-life.
BRAVA Elenanow we need two more women on the Court…lookin at you, Thomas and Scalia…I hope they lunch on fish bones….and swill it down with absinthe
Another right centrist on the Supremes. Oh well, can’t win ‘em all.
Can we now, finally,Get the release of all of her papers from the Clinton Library to find out what the woman actually believes?
Woweeeeee Another Historic Vagina To Get Weeeweeed Up About!!“This Blog is not a haven for trolls, threats, or people wishing to spam or harass” – really? After reading many posts on this website authored by liberals I would’ve thought it IS a haven for trolls, threats AND especially people wishing to spam and harass. Have I finally found opposite land? Lets all think for a second and in doing so let’s put politics and race and gender aside. If you were confirmed to the supreme court what would you want to be the first thing people know about you? Would it be the type of genetailia you have between your legs? No, of course not, unless you have the disease commonly know as liberalism. Liberalism is a type of mental psychosis that affects the brain’s ability to filter out rational though patters in favor of unrational thought patterns in order to gain the acceptance of others. It’s kind of like lying to yourself until you actaully start believing your own lies. If you are experiencing self esteem problems then you are definitely going to need to go to a doctor immediately and get it checked out because if you believe in the concept of low self esteem in the first place then you’re vulnerable to liberalism attacking you. Here’s the cure: realize that weak-minded people (liberals) call people who they are afraid of names like racist or bigot or homophobe. Liberals will tell lies for what they believe to be for the benefit of the greater good. They will give up their civil rights to make way for a bigger version of government so they can be lazy and stay home everyday and collect money from the governmnet and not have to work and get free health care. They will verbally attack people like me because they are afraid of strong-upstanding people who don’t require the assistance of government to survive. There are people just like me in every racial community on this planet and we outnumber the liberals by a better than 2 to 1 ratio, a fact that for some reason scares liberals. Liberals: don’t do anything unrational to gain the acceptance of conservatives, just cease being liberal. Being conservative comes naturally and isn’t a mental psychosis. Fundamental conservative values were used in the construction of the constitution and are exactly the reason this country has survived as long as it has. Please realize this and wake the hell up and/or snap out of the mental psychosis and contribute to the betterment of society. Elena Kagan is not sexually attractive to ANYONE and nerver has been nor will she ever be. She is most likely a closet-stlyle homosexual who will forever be sentenced to whatever grandeur she can derive from living in the fooldom she has created for herself in this life. We might never really know what this woman believes in. But we know this for sure…we at least know two things she doesn’t belive in: The US constitution in it’s current form AND God. But yet she works to earn money (and she even has given some to Barrak Oboma) that has “In God We Trust” written on every dollar she’s ever spent!
The entire above ocean of text was unnecessary and unwarranted.If you have a point to make, then sharpen your knife and make it.
If all you want to do is scream your personal spectrum of verbal masturbation, find somewhere else.
Do I believe that Liberalism is basicly a form of mental illness? Yes. But stating so is not going to cure anyone who suffers from it. Far better to go point for point on Liberalism’s core tenets and eviscerate the dogma from the inside.
Very few people are going to read that undifferentiated block of pablum start to finish, and fewer than that should.