Author: BooMan

All For Show

Not that our side doesn’t do it too, but still… “[Kagan] hasn’t written that much, and what’s she written is technical,” said the [former senior GOP] aide, who worked on judicial nominations. “She goes into the...

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Burning Hot Stupid

If the original Constitution of the United States had not been defective, we would still have only ten amendments (aka the Bill of Rights) instead of twenty-seven. For example, we added the Reconstruction Amendments which...

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Quote of the Day

This is interesting: Yet as a young writer for The Princetonian, the student newspaper at Princeton, Ms. Kagan offered clear insight into her worldview. She had spent the summer of 1980 working to elect a liberal Democrat, Liz...

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Kagan, Specter, and Bennett

When Elena Kagan was confirmed as Solicitor General, she only garnered 61 votes. That’s a little misleading, though, because if every Democrat had voted she would have had 65 votes for confirmation. Sens. Coburn (R-OK),...

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Looks Like Its Kagan

It’s not a big surprise that Obama selected Elena Kagan to be his nominee to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, but it is a little bit disappointing. Glenn Greenwald has been on a rampage against Kagan, and he...

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