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— Excerpts from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s 1995 review of Stephen Carter’s book “A Confirmation Mess,” in which she called for a more meaningful vetting of high court prospects:
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WASHINGTON — Cruising toward confirmation, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan completed grueling Senate questioning Wednesday, unscathed by Republican challenges on abortion, gays in the military and gun rights while sidestepping partisan debate about GOP-named judges pulling the court to the right.
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— Today is Thursday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2010. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.
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DURING MUCH OF her confirmation hearing this week, Elena Kagan has stuck to the script adopted by post-Robert Bork nominees to the Supreme Court, providing answers that are so general as to be meaningless. When asked about the Second Amendment, she noted that the Supreme Court had recognized an individual right to keep and bear arms — the same answer given by then-nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who voted this week against such an interpretation of the Constitution. Ms. Kagan asserted the importance of judicial “modesty” and “humility” in respecting congressional pronouncements — echoing the words of nominee John G. Roberts Jr., for whom, as, chief justice, deference has not extended to congressionally mandated campaign finance laws.
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By the end of 17 hours of senatorial grilling, lecturing and badgering, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan had revealed at least one passion: She loves this stuff.
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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan navigated the last day of her confirmation testimony Wednesday, charting a course between Republican attempts to characterize her as a results-oriented social liberal and Democratic attempts to prod her to criticize as politically motivated the court she seeks to join.
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LOS ANGELES — A California man who alleges he was abused in the 1960s by a priest who belonged to the Salesian order of the Roman Catholic church filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the order and the Vatican, claiming officials covered for the cleric by shuffling him between three continents over three decades.
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Along with debating legal issues, Democratic and Republican senators argued Wednesday at Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings over another controversy: their participation in a “vapid and hollow charade” in the past and this week.
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DETROIT — If a group of lawmakers backing a federal bill introduced Wednesday get their way, the waterways linking the Mississippi River basin and the Great Lakes would be permanently separated to keep Asian carp and other invasive species at bay.
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