Elena Kagan

Scalia wrong, Thomas right on violent games

By: Ken Klukowski 06/30/11 11:10 PM

Those who paint U.S. Supreme Court justices with a broad brush only prove they don’t really understand the court.Justice Antonin Scalia was dead wrong in striking down California’s restriction on selling horribly violent video games to children. And Justice Clarence Thomas did a spectacular job of showing why the founders would uphold this law. Read More

Brown to vote ‘no’ on Kagan

By: Staff report 08/04/10 12:00 AM

Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., announced Thursday he will vote against the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Brown just released a statement saying he found her to be “brilliant” but lacking in the right experience. Read More

Did GOP senators show ‘contempt’ for Obama and Kagan? Then so did Dems

By: Byron York 07/20/10 12:00 AM

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank lavishes praise on Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham for voting yes on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The six committee Republicans who voted against Kagan, Milbank writes, “have become so reflexive in their opposition to Obama that they are distorting their constitutional duties.” Read More

In vote, will senators weigh Kagan's tricky words?

By: Byron York 07/20/10 12:00 AM

The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Tuesday on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan. In a panel made up of 12 Democrats and seven Republicans (the most lopsided party ratio of any Senate committee), the outcome is not in doubt. But a serious question remains: How can any senator reconcile an "aye" vote with Kagan's troubling actions in the Clinton White House on partial-birth abortion? Read More

Veteran underscores Kagan’s hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty

By: Barbara Hollingsworth 07/11/10 12:00 AM

Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. The most damning argument against confirming Kagan was not made by Republicans, but by Harvard graduate student Pete Hegseth, executive director of Vets for Freedom. Read More

Liberals find a new love: ‘Judicial restraint’

By: Matthew Sheffield 07/07/10 12:00 AM

Faced with a string of Supreme Court ruings in cases dear to liberal hearts regarding campaign censorship and gun control, America’s liberals are taking up a new line of argument regarding the courts by accusing the right of being hypocritical on the subject of “judicial activism.” It’s a rather convenient argument and certainly comes in reaction to conservative and libertarian groups’ now-successful attempts to use the courts to their advantage as the left has done for decades. Read More

Examiner editorial: Kagan dodges and weaves on natural rights

By: Fidel Cajulao 07/04/10 12:00 AM

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is getting some flak because under questioning by Sen. Tom Coburn, she refused to recognize “natural rights” outside of the U.S. Constitution, presumably including those mentioned in our Declaration of Independence. Read More

Examiner Editorial: Nominee Kagan is no justice tabula rasa

By: Fidel Cajulao 06/30/10 12:00 AM

Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl was only half right in an observation he offered during opening statements in the confirmation hearing of President Barack Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Said Kohl: “We have less evidence about what sort of judge you will be than on any nominee in recent memory. Your judicial philosophy is almost invisible to us.” Read More

Kagan concocted medical claim to justify partial-birth abortion

By: John McCormack 06/29/10 12:00 AM

Yuval Levin writes: If you haven’t read Shannen Coffin’s piece on Elena Kagan and the partial-birth-abortion debate today, you really should. What he describes, based on newly released Clinton White House memos, is absolutely astonishing. Read More

Law professors provide how-to guide to figure out Elena Kagan’s elusive views

By: Casey Cheney 06/29/10 12:00 AM

Jeremy Rabkin, law professor at the George Mason School of Law, warned the audience that he had no inside information on Supreme Court Justice-to-be Elena Kagan. With those words, nearly palpable disappointment settled over the room. No dirt on Kagan? Read More