Keep Track of the Elena Kagan Nomination

Resources to Guide You Through the Supreme Court Nomination Process

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