Today in Washington – May 13, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 13th at 11:00 AM  | 

Today will be another day of Obama Solicitor General Elena Kagan one-on-one meetings with Senators.  As Senators review the qualifications and actions of Elena Kagan to be the next Supreme Court Justice, they should hold her to the high standard that she sought to impose on conservative nominees.  In 1995 Kagan wrote a review of the book “The Confirmation Mess” by Stephen L. Carter and she complained of | Read More »

Roy Blunt and Robin Carnahan on the Kagan nomination

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  May 12th at 10:00 PM  | 

Missourians are no doubt curious about what the two leading candidates in the 2010 Missouri Senate race think about President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.  So what do the two key candidates have to say? Republican Congressman Roy Blunt, on what the GOP and the Senate should do: Judicial nominees should meet a substantially different | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 12, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 12th at 11:30 AM  | 

Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be making some house calls for one-on-one courtesy meetings with Senators.  I can’t tell you how many times over the past two days I hear conservatives say “yeah, Kagan is bad, but if she is defeated or withdrawn, we will get somebody worse.”  As many teams are finding out right now in the NBA and NHL playoffs, never look past | Read More »

News media starting to get ornery over Kagan thing.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 12th at 08:53 AM  | 

Not that the White House cares.  Or do most of the people reading this, except in a theoretical, pass-the-popcorn sense, I suppose: The White House today posted on its website a video allowing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to speak “in her own words” about her personal history and perspective. In the interview, conducted by a White House staffer who produces videos for the administration, | Read More »

Elena Kagan Played Softball. So What?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 11th at 11:44 PM  | 

Apparently Elena Kagan is a softball player, or something like that. It is not a subject I care to write about, want to write about, or think is relevant to much of anything considering the woman’s only definitive answer on any matter of jurisprudence is that she believes there is no federal constitutional right to gay marriage. So that’s that. Except it isn’t. And it | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 11, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 11th at 05:00 AM  | 

Yesterday, President Obama rolled out Elena Kagan, the current Solicitor General and nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.  The left wing noise machine distributed talking points to fight the argument that Kagan’s lacked necessary judicial and legal experience for the Supreme Court.  Nobody, right or left, really knows anything about Kagan’s judicial temperament or philosophy, because of her absence of a body of legal writings.  | Read More »

This Week in Washington – May 10, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 10th at 04:59 AM  | 

Elena Kagan, Diane Wood, Merrick Garland, and Sidney Thomas are all on the short list to be President Obama’ nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court according to the Wall Street Journal.  An announcement is expected as early as this morning.  Kagan is widely believed to be the one to be chosen by The One. The Senate will put in another week on the ObamaBailout bill as the House deals with | Read More »

Elena Kagan Nomination Debate Preview

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 10th at 12:16 AM  | 

President Obama is expected to announce at 10 am this morning that Elena Kagan will be submitted to the Senate for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.  From FoxNews.com: President Barack Obama is to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his pick to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, NBC News reported Sunday. Let the vetting begin.  A preview of the Senate debate on Kagan to be Supreme Court Justice can | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 7, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 7th at 11:22 AM  | 

Elena Kagan — get to know the name.  The Senate and House have a no votes scheduled for today.  Yesterday the Senate completed work on another day of amending S.3217 the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010″ (also known as the ObamaBailout bill).  The buzz in Washington today is about Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, being President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to replace Justice John | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 4, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 4th at 09:15 AM  | 

Hot day in Washington and things are going to heat up in the debate on the ObamaBailout bill.  Conservatives should focus on understanding the debate in the Senate today on amendments to S.3217, the so called Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010.  Expect more talk and floor speeches about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill and the level of BP’s financial responsibility in the disaster in Washington.  Also, the talk of the town this | Read More »