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Former Dean of Harvard Law School and Solicitor General Elena Kagan has been nominated to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama this morning...
Kagan, who is 50 years old, would be the youngest Justice on the Court. She would also be the first Justice since William H. Rehnquist without any prior judicial experience...
...speaking yesterday before the announcement was made, Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz said that the recruitment issue was “very center to moderate” and that he does not believe that it will bar her from the Court...
Ellison is also quick to point out that the Ad Board does not allocate consequences with the same severity as a court...
...Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, a conservative public policy organization, argued against the idea that gay marriage is a civil right. He said that civil rights must come from the democratic legislative process and not from court decisions. A civil right cannot be taken away if it did not exist in the first place, he added...