Kegan gets conformed by full Senate.

[Lemon law]

Posted mainly as a news item, Kegan easily won Senate conformation Today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/us/politics/06kagan.html?ref=global-home

If the GOP had 100% party discipline, the GOP might have been able to stop her confirmation, the GOP did not, and that ends all Kegan arguments.

Its somewhat ironic to note, GWB had to wait until his second term to get his first chance to pick someone for SCOTUS, but Obama has got two picks not even half way through the first term. But thus far no Obama pick has changed the "Balance" of SCOTUS, but I predict a hell of a fight if Obama ever gets a pick to replace Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, or Alito. And maybe not so big of a battle but still a bruser if Obama gets to pick a replacement for Kennedy.

 

[hal2kilo]

Posted mainly as a news item, Kegan easily won Senate conformation Today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/us/politics/06kagan.html?ref=global-home

If the GOP had 100% party discipline, the GOP might have been able to stop her confirmation, the GOP did not, and that ends all Kegan arguments.

Its somewhat ironic to note, GWB had to wait until his second term to get his first chance to pick someone for SCOTUS, but Obama has got two picks not even half way through the first term. But thus far no Obama pick has changed the "Balance" of SCOTUS, but I predict a hell of a fight if Obama ever gets a pick to replace Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, or Alito. And maybe not so big of a battle but still a bruser if Obama gets to pick a replacement for Kennedy.

That's an understatement.

Did they bend her in a press? You need to fix the title

 

[her209]

McCain must be kicking himself for doing such a poor job campaigning.

 

[theeedude]

Posted mainly as a news item, Kegan easily won Senate conformation Today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/us/politics/06kagan.html?ref=global-home

If the GOP had 100% party discipline, the GOP might have been able to stop her confirmation, the GOP did not, and that ends all Kegan arguments.

Its somewhat ironic to note, GWB had to wait until his second term to get his first chance to pick someone for SCOTUS, but Obama has got two picks not even half way through the first term. But thus far no Obama pick has changed the "Balance" of SCOTUS, but I predict a hell of a fight if Obama ever gets a pick to replace Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, or Alito. And maybe not so big of a battle but still a bruser if Obama gets to pick a replacement for Kennedy.

I hope we get to find this out.

 

[khon]

Maybe now that she's confirmed we can actually find out what her views are ?

 

[Tab]

Not surprised in the slightest, though I would have prefered a different candidate.

 

[hal2kilo]

Maybe now that she's confirmed we can actually find out what her views are ?

Well we sure know Roberts and Alito lied during their testimony. Stare decisis my ass.

 

[Turin39789]

congratulations

 

[dbk]

so she's never sat on a bench before? errr

 

[xj0hnx]

so she's never sat on a bench before? errr

Park bench maybe, or a bus bench, maybe on a softball team?

 

[theeedude]

so she's never sat on a bench before? errr

Neither had Rehnquist before he got on USSC. It's nothing new, and often desirable to get new blood into the system.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i just remember seeing a clip where a member of congress asked kagan

"why do you want to serve on the USSC?"


wtf kind of bullshit question is that? you should be probing her views in interpreting the constitution, not asking completely useless questions.


personally i think if you're going to be a judge on the USSC, you should at least have some experience being a judge prior to appointment. but i guess it's worked ok so far :\

 

[Craig234]

so she's never sat on a bench before? errr

Like about a third of all Supreme Court Justices, IIRC? That counts for a lot less than whether they're radical ideologues like the radical right 4 (who did sit before) we have.

 

[Lemon law]

Gotta love that quite, "i just remember seeing a clip where a member of congress asked kagan

"why do you want to serve on the USSC?"

Silly Kagan , she should have simply said, I want to 10o% support the GOP tea bag movement as an activist judge. 41 out of 41 GOP votes in the Senate for for sure.
Why be a wolf in sheep's clothing like Roberts and Alito, and be the GOP fantasy dream scenario number one all wrapped up in a single person.

 

[MotF Bane]

Like about a third of all Supreme Court Justices, IIRC? That counts for a lot less than whether they're radical ideologues like the radical right 4 (who did sit before) we have.

Yeah, because the left never puts up radical ideologues.

 

[Jhhnn]

Yeah, because the left never puts up radical ideologues.

Name one submitted for the SCOTUS in recent memory.

 

[Thump553]

The really sad thing is how politicalized Supreme Court nominations have become. Even twenty years ago there might have been a lot of bluster about a candidate but nearly every Senator would vote for confirmation in the end- 90 to 5 votes (or so) were the norm. Since the Bill Clinton era it seems like EVERY Supereme Court nomination has been decided almost strictly along party lines. It's a sad state of affairs.

 

[Zebo]

Terrible choice. Read her wiki page. Doesn't believe in free speech, thinks NRA is bad guy and that's just first two rights. She's also a police statist...renditions and whatnot.

I wish Obama sent up true liberals in Warren or Burger mold.

 

[Sluggo]

Maybe now that she's confirmed we can actually find out what her views are ?

Yes, just like Obamacare and the financial reform bill. This is the new Washington climate, we have to actually vote for and pass this stuff before we can open it up like a big, shiny Christmas present so we can see the horrors inside.

 

[Jhhnn]

I wish Obama sent up true liberals in Warren or Burger mold.

Or Bill Douglas, Thurgood Marshall and a few others...

Douglas sent generations of Righties to foaming at the mouth & raving incoherently...

 

[Craig234]

I wish Obama sent up true liberals in Warren or Burger mold.

Both of whom were Republican appointees (as is Stevens who Kagen replaces); Burger wasn't a liberal, but ya, that's what we need.

 

[Siddhartha]

Both of whom were Republican appointees (as is Stevens who Kagen replaces); Burger wasn't a liberal, but ya, that's what we need.

The Republicans who appointed Berger and Warren would be considered "liberals" now.

 

[cubby1223]

Yeah, because the left never puts up radical ideologues.

Well, to someone who is radical left, everyone else by default is "radical right"

 

[Pens1566]

The Republicans who appointed Berger and Warren would be considered "liberals" now.

So would Goldwater.

 

[PokerGuy]

Yay! A leftist ideologue with no judicial experience is now a judge on the top court in the land. Only in America