A few more Republicans are expected likely to back Kagan in the full Senate, where Democrats have more than enough votes to confirm her. But most GOP senators are against her, arguing that she would put her political views ahead of the law. They point to what they call her liberal agenda...
Elena Kagan's Cases & Political Views from Chapter 1 / Lesson 4 3.6K Elena Kagan is an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States who has brought her unique and pragmatic perspective on politics to her case law. Kagan replaced outgoing Justice John Paul Stevens and is ...
Kagan is doing just as the vast majority of "kagans" are doing in the USA since they came here during the 19th and 20th centuries: work against the country that gave them safety and the chance to start a new life.That's what they have done in every country they settled in.Become the...
Elena Kagan. Self: Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP. Elena Kagan serves on the United States Supreme Court. She grew up in a middle class family in New York City, the middle child and only daughter of Robert Kagan, an attorney, and Glori
Kagan has taken many unpopular positions on cases before the Supreme Court that needs to be reviewed by the public. The first set of cases that comes to mind are the political prosecution cases in Alabama and Mississippi. In one of the cases, Ms. Kagan has asked that the Supreme Court ...
Kagan’s argument that the government could prohibit political speech by corporations was rejected by a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in that case, and in a scathing concurrence ...
Kagan’s supporters say while her position on “don’t ask, don’t tell” is well-known, she has not made any political judgment on other issues. “From everything I know and as someone who knows her, she would give a fair hearing to any gay rights case,” said Richard Socarides, ...
No one knows why she changed her mind but it is likely that the shift resulted more from a political calculation than a change of heart about the nature of the process. This Commentary suggests that Justice Kagan could have testified consistently with her previously expressed views and still ...
During her confirmation hearings, Justice Kagan backed away from numerous critical comments she had previously made about the nomination process. No one knows why she changed her mind but it is likely that the shift resulted more from a political calculation than a change of heart about the natur...
At the same time, a large portion of the public also sees the justices as political actors who are wrapped up in partisan disputes. Given these prevailing public views, we should expect the Kagan confirmation process to transmit contradictory images of judicial decisionmaking, with a portrait of...