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Obama Is Said to Choose Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country's future …
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NBC: Obama to name Kagan for high court — Kagan, 50, is currently solicitor general; would be court's third woman — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, NBC News' Pete Williams reported late Sunday night.
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New York Times:
Kagan's Climb Is Marked by Confidence and Canniness — WASHINGTON — She was a creature of Manhattan's liberal, intellectual Upper West Side — a smart, witty girl who was bold enough at 13 to challenge her family's rabbi over her bat mitzvah, cocky (or perhaps prescient) …
The Politico:
Obama to Senate: Act fast — President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court Monday - calling her a legal trailblazer who would embody “that same excellence, independence, integrity and passion for the law” as the man she would replace, retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
What Obama sees in Kagan — It's Kagan! — Why is President Obama choosing his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, as his second nominee to the U.S Supreme Court? By all accounts, Obama wants someone who can serve as a counterweight to the intellectual heft of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Media Matters for America:
Myths and falsehoods about Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination — Myth: Kagan's policies on military recruiters make her “an anti-military zealot” and an extremist on social issues — Myth: “Kagan Standard” means Kagan must answer questions about issues that will come before the Supreme Court
Washington Post:
Elena Kagan said to be Obama's Supreme Court pick — President Obama has scheduled a mid-morning announcement to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, sources said late Sunday night. — Obama will be joined by Kagan in the East Room.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP uses Thurgood Marshall to attack Kagan — Republicans are questioning Elena Kagan's ties to a liberal icon and the nation's first African American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall. — In its first memo to reporters since Kagan's nomination to the high court became public …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
An Anti-Military Justice? — For me, the key obstacle to Elena Kagan's confirmation is pt. 5 in Ed Whelan's NRO post, which is also the question raised by Peter Berkowitz in these pages several years ago and by Peter Beinart just recently: Her hostility to the U.S. military. — Hostility?
Media Matters for America:
Conservative opposition to Kagan is motivated by politics, not substance — From the beginning, conservative media figures made it clear they would aggressively fight whoever President Obama nominated in order to excite their base and weaken the White House.
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
Where We Go From Here — The Administration plans to identify …
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Emily Bazelon / Slate:
Elena Kagan's youth and judicial inexperience recommend her for the Supreme Court.
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Seen As Rising Star, Kagan Has Limited Paper Trail
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Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's natural choice of Kagan
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James Doty / Salon:
The liberal case against Kagan is overstated
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Stephen Tall / Liberal Democrat Voice:
What Lib Dem members think about talking to the Tories: LDV poll results — Lib Dem Voice has been conducting a survey today of party members registered on our members' forum asking them for their views of the discussions that have been taking place between the Lib Dems and the Conservatives.
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Left Foot Forward:
Lib-Con coalition would be an “electoral gift” to Labour
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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Gordon Brown told it's time to go as hopes fade for deal with Lib Dems
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Simple thoughts on Europe — 1. The fundamental cause of the financial crisis has been people and institutions thinking they are wealthy than they are; this spread to Europe as well and now we are seeing the comeuppance. — 2. Although accounting conventions differ, and numbers …
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Aljean Harmetz / New York Times:
Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92 — Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Divorce and Abortion: Red States and Blue States — Fifty years ago, American family structures were remarkably uniform. The rich married at roughly the same rate as the poor and middle class. Divorce rates were low for the college educated and high school graduates alike.
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New York Times:
Banks Fight Ban in Derivatives Trading — Cory Strupp, who represents Wall Street in Washington, spent the last six months lobbying for more than two dozen changes in the derivatives chapter of the Senate's financial legislation. — He has spent the last two weeks focused on one …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sex & Drugs & the Spill — “Obama's Katrina”: that was the line from some pundits and news sources, as they tried to blame the current administration for the gulf oil spill. It was nonsense, of course. An Associated Press review of the Obama administration's actions and statements …
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John Micek / Capitol Ideas with John L. Micek:
Sestak Up By 5/Williams Moves Up In Guv's Race. — U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak ... ... has opened a 5-percentage point lead in the state's closely watched U.S. Senate primary. He's up over U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., 47-42 percent in the new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College daily tracking poll.
American Prospect:
The Stark Reality of Defense Contracting — A summer blockbuster tackles disputes endemic to the military-industrial complex. — In Iron Man 2, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) risks billion-dollar pieces of equipment to impress guests at a birthday party — a big mistake for a defense contractor.
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