Obama Nominates Elena Kagan to Supreme Court
Matt Ortega | Uncategorized10 May 2010
A year after nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, President Barack Obama named his second choice to the nation’s highest court with Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring liberal stalwart, Justice John Paul Stevens.
Republicans immediately shot themselves in the foot. This morning, Michael Steele’s RNC issued a memo that included a peculiar attack against Kagan: she quoted her mentor — civil rights icon and the nation’s first African-American justice, Thurgood Marshall.
President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday.
Marshall had stated in a bicentennial speech in 1987 that the Constitution was initially ‘defective’ for, among a number of reasons, slavery and qualification of slaves as “three-fifths.”
The argument was quickly spun back as national Republicans “defending” the institution of slavery protected in the original Constitution.
Even the conservative National Review slammed the line of attack.
Find statements from U.S. senators on the Kagan nomination here.
Tags: Barack Obama, Judiciary
