Keep Track of the Elena Kagan Nomination

Resources to Guide You Through the Supreme Court Nomination Process

SOURCE: AP/Alex Brandon

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan walks in after a break in her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 30, 2010.

July 16, 2010

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Check out CAP's analysis and discussion of Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, and CAP Actions' debunking of right-wing attacks against the nominee.

Events

• The Living Constitution and the Kagan Nomination
• Debating Our Judiciary
  

Center for American Progress

• Executive Privilege 101
• A Qualified and Faithful Legal Mind
• Experience Comes from More than a Judge’s Robe
• A Victory for Equal Justice
• A Much-Needed Progressive Voice on the Court
  

ThinkProgress

• Coburn Has ‘No Idea’ Whether He Would Have Voted to Confirm Thurgood Marshall
• Kagan Rejects Roberts’ ‘Umpire’ Metaphor: Judging Is Not a ‘Robotic Exercise’
• After Slamming ‘Activist’ Judges, Sessions Criticizes Kagan as Insufficiently Activist
• Washington Times Features Doctored Photo of Kagan in a Turban to Claim She’s Subservient to Shariah Law
• Scarborough Repeats Debunked Claim that Kagan ‘Violated the Law’ While Dean of Harvard Law
• McCain Attacks Kagan for Harvard’s ROTC Policy—Even Though She Had Nothing to Do with it
• When it Comes to Supreme Court Nominees and Elena Kagan, Cornyn Can’t Keep His Story Straight
• Ken Starr on Right-Wing Attacks on Kagan: ‘I Don’t Think it Serves the Country Well’
• REPORT: Kagan’s Experience Involved Handling More than One Thousand Cases
• Flashback: McConnell And DeMint Praised Harriet Miers’ ‘Wealth’ of ‘Great Experience’
• It Didn’t Take Long for Rush Limbaugh to Start Making Sexist Attacks Against Elena Kagan
• Inhofe Becomes First Senator to Declare his Opposition to Kagan, Hours After Obama Announces Nomination.
• The Progressive Case for Elena Kagan
• Kyl on Kagan: ‘She Doesn’t Seem to Be Over the Top’
• After Calling Her ‘Very Respectable’ and ‘Impressive,’ Kristol Bashes Kagan as ‘Hostile to the Military’
• Far-Right Group AFA Demands to Know Kagan’s Sexuality, Since ‘No Lesbian Is Qualified’ to Sit on SCOTUS
• Barrasso Pledges to Make the Constitutionality of Health Care a Major Issue in Kagan’s Confirmation Hearings

Wonk Room

• No, Kagan Does Not Need to Recuse Herself from Health Care Litigation
• Hannity Says Kagan Would Tell ‘Americans What to Eat’
• Perkins Testifies: Kagan Opposes Military Because ‘They Have Not Bowed to Demands of Sexual Counter Culture’
• Kagan Hearing Day Three: The Eye of the Beholder
• GOP Wants Kagan to be Both for and Against Precedent
  
• Sessions Misses Irony in Arguing that Kagan’s Opposition to DADT Treated Military ‘in a Second Class Way’
  
• Kagan Hearing Day One: The Battle to Define ‘Judicial Activism’
• Sessions Takes the Low Road Against Kagan
• Anatomy of a Smear: From the Federalist Society, to CBS, to Jeff Sessions
• Like a Broken Record, Conservatives Repeat Scare Tactics About Foreign Law in US Courts
• No, Kagan Does Not Want to Ban Books
• Right-Wing Lawmakers Demand SCOTUS Nominee Kagan Flank to the Right of Scalia
• Limbaugh Falsely Accuses Kagan of Wanting to ‘Have Somebody in Charge of Who Can Say What’
• Like Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Mullen, Kagan Believes Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Clashes with Military Values