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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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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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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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So Is She Gay? — It is no more of an empirical question than whether she is Jewish. We know she is Jewish, and it is a fact simply and rightly put in the public square. If she were to hide her Jewishness, it would seem rightly odd, bizarre, anachronistic, even arguably self-critical or self-loathing.


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) …


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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Far-Right Group AFA Demands To Know Kagan's Sexuality, Since ‘No Lesbian Is Qualified’ To Sit On SCOTUS — Today, President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. Since she happens to be an unmarried woman who has not publicly commented on her sexuality …

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 …
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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.


If Elena Kagan Is a Lesbian, She Should Say So because Public Has a Right to Know — Contact: Peter LaBarbera: 630-717-7631; americansfortruth@comcast.net — CHICAGO, Ill. — In the wake of AP's report that Solicitor General Elena Kagan is President Obama's choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy …
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Opinion: A diversity double-standard — Editor's note: Roland S. Martin, a CNN political analyst, is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of “Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith” and the new book “The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House.”

Is she or isn't she? Let's ask her — Speculation continues to swirl about the sexual preference of likely Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. She is apparently out to her friends and others in her academic and social circles, but not out to the public at large.

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?
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Obama Picks Kagan as Justice Nominee
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Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan — By: Ed Whelan
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Obama's natural choice of Kagan
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Obama to Senate: Act fast
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Morning Bell: Former Attorney General Ed Meese on Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan


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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Gordon Brown to resign as Prime Minister as Labour and Lib Dems prepare for talks
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Lib-Con coalition would be an “electoral gift” to Labour
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What Lib Dem members think about talking to the Tories: LDV poll results
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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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DCCC pulls out of Hawaii special election — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is pulling out of the Hawaii special election for Rep. Neil Abercrombie's (D) seat, effectively handing the seat to the Republicans. — “The DCCC will not be investing additional resources in the …
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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.

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.