Aug 05 U.S. Senate Approves Kagan to Join Supreme Court By Quinn Bowman The U.S. Senate voted 63 to 37 Thursday afternoon to approve Elena Kagan as an associate justice to the Supreme Court, making her the fourth woman to become a justice on the nation's highest court and the third woman on… Continue reading
Jul 22 Watch Dispute Over Controversial Arizona Immigration Law Heads to Court The State of Arizona faced off against the U.S. Justice Department in court Thursday over the controversial immigration law set to go into effect next week. Ray Suarez discusses the legal dispute with two law professors, one a critic of… Continue watching
Jul 20 Graham Lone Republican Voting 'Aye' as Senate Committee Approves Kagan By Quinn Bowman The Senate Judiciary committee voted 13-6 Tuesday to recommend that the full Senate approve Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the next Supreme Court justice. The vote was along party lines with one exception -- South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham… Continue reading
Jul 08 How Candid Was Kagan? Depends Who's Asking, Analysts Say By Chris Amico To Sen. Patrick Leahy, Solicitor General Elena Kagan was "more forthcoming than certainly any nominee that I can recall since I've been in the Senate." But to Sen. Arlen Specter, she was far less candid: "You have followed the… Continue reading
Jul 05 15 Key Cases of the Supreme Court Term By News Desk On Monday's NewsHour, Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog and other legal experts will review the highlights of the just-completed Supreme Court term. Here on the Rundown, Goldstein and his legal team at SCOTUSblog agreed to break down the most important… Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch High Court Ends Term with Decisions on Handguns, Student Organization Funding The Supreme Court handed down opinions concerning handgun possession in the home, student organization funding, patent law, and the separation-of-powers principle as it wrapped up its term this week. Continue watching
Jul 02 Gwen's Take: Who Knew the Supreme Court Could Be Funny? By Gwen Ifill Perhaps Antonin Scalia has met his match. It is all well and good that the high court's most conservative justice probably disagrees with Elena Kagan on nearly everything involving Constitutional interpretation. But Scalia and Kagan may find far more common… Continue reading
Jul 02 Watch Shields and Brooks on Kagan's Confirmation Chances, Jobs Numbers, Byrd's Impact Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the week, including the conclusion of Elena Kagan's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the latest jobless report and the impact Sen. Robert C. Byrd had on the Senate. Continue watching
Jul 01 Looking for the 'Real' Elena Kagan in Confirmation Hearings By Judy Woodruff Like just about everyone else covering Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings this week, I observed that she did a good job of ducking tough questions. Sen. Arlen Specter: Would she vote for the Supreme Court to take up a… Continue reading
Jul 01 Are Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Getting Longer? By Chris Amico Elena Kagan is done with her testimony before the the Senate Judiciary Committee. After three days of long questions and longer statements, the solicitor general can watch the rest of her confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Court from… Continue reading