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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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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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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) …

Supreme Irony - Kagan Nomination Ends Gay Marriage Hopes — Later this morning, Elena Kagan will be nominated for the Supreme Court seat currently held by John Paul Stevens. — The meme has taken hold that Kagan is a stealth candidate who has avoided taking positions on important constitutional or other issues throughout her career.
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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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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.


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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Obama Picks Kagan as Justice Nominee — WASHINGTON — President Obama introduced Solicitor General Elena Kagan on Monday as his choice to become the nation's 112th justice of the Supreme Court, hailing her as a “one of the nation's foremost legal minds,” as he girded for a battle over whether it takes a judge to serve on the court.

Elena Kagan's Nomination — President Obama is set to nominate Elena Kagan, the Solicitor General, to the Supreme Court today. — I should make a disclosure. I met Elena on our first day of law school at Harvard in the fall of 1983. We were introduced by a mutual friend …


Elana Kagan — The news that Barack Obama will nominate Elana Kagan for the Supreme Court vacancy is, it seems, now official. I've seen some not very plausible efforts by Kagan's lefty critics to try to analogize her to Harriet Miers. I think the clear similarity is between Kagan and John Roberts …


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

Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination
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Morning Bell: Former Attorney General Ed Meese on Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan

The liberal case against Kagan is overstated
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Schieffer Sees Bitter, Vicious Fight Over Kagan
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Who is Europe really bailing out? — Tyler Cowen has some smart thoughts on the European Union's announcement of a $750 billion euro bailout fund: … More here. Remember that this is no more a bailout of Greece and Spain and Portugal than TARP was a bailout of subprime borrowers.
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Simple thoughts on Europe
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DCCC Pulls Out Of Hawaii — The DCCC is pulling out of the race to replace ex-Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), effectively ceding the heavily Dem seat to the GOP as intra-party feuding splits the vote. — “The DCCC will not be investing additional resources in the HI-01 (Abercrombie-open) special election.
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Brown to quit as Labour leader — Gordon Brown has said he is stepping down as Labour Party leader. — Mr Brown, prime minister since 2007, said he wanted a successor to be in place by the time of the party's conference in September. — Mr Brown announced his intention to quit …
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Lib-Con coalition would be an “electoral gift” to Labour
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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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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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Maine Republicans Adopt Tea Party Platform — An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activists. — The official platform for the Republican Party …