politico.com - 2/10/2009
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Obama has nominated Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School, to become the 46th solicitor general.
latimes.com - 2/11/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Washington -- Harvard Law Dean Elena
Kagan, President Obama's choice to represent his administration before
the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists ...
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Solicitor general nominee says 'enemy combatants' can be ...
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Elena Kagan's SG Confirmation Hearing: A Preview Of A Future SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing?
TalkLeft —
Politico notes: With the revelation last week that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is suffering from pancreatic cancer, the political stakes for Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the next solicitor general were raised dramatically. President Barack Obama has nominated Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School, to become the 46th solicitor general . . . While her confirmation is widely expected by both sides, Democrats and Republicans consider the fight over Kagan’s nomination to be a dry run for a future Supreme Court ...
Solicitor General Hearing Tests Waters for Judicial Nominations
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... Democrats and Republicans see Kagan’s nomination as a “trial balloon” for future Supreme Court nomination battles, reports Politico. “Not only is Kagan, 48, on many short lists for a Supreme Court appointment; when the Judiciary Committee considers her nomination for solicitor general, it will preview many of the same legal and constitutional issues that the Obama administration must confront: detainee rights, interrogation practices, criminal law, voting rights, [and] the reach of presidential power.” ...
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First 100 days: Obama's first presser —
First Read 2/10/2009
USA Today writes, “President Obama took his case for more than $800 billion in economic stimulus directly to the American people Monday, accusing Republicans of playing politics with a plan that's ‘exactly what this country needs.’… ‘I can't ...
First thoughts: Obama's 24-hour blitz —
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Obama’s 24-hour blitz: After President Obama yesterday conducted a town hall in Indiana and then held his first primetime news conference as president, his media blitz to sell the economic ...
Hannity and Obama to share a six pack? —
CNN Political Ticker 2/10/2009
Will Obama get a beer with Sean Hannity.
(CNN) — They're the unlikeliest of drinking buddies: President Obama and one of his fiercest critics — Fox News host Sean Hannity.
But the two may just be getting closer to sharing a bottle or ...
$1 trillion bid to boost lending —
CNN Political Ticker 2/10/2009
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – The Obama administration is set to announce a $1 trillion program aimed at revitalizing lending to consumers and businesses.
The Federal Reserve program expands on a $200 billion initiative unveiled in November to lend ...
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