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"Kagan's skills well-suited to hearings; But high court nominee must take her game up a notch for confirmation's political forum"

"Kagan's skills well-suited to hearings; But high court nominee must take her game up a notch for confirmation's political forum": Joan Biskupic has this article today in USA Today. And in commentary, Stephen Prothero has an op-ed entitled "Faith on the court matters: A Catholic-Jewish panel is better than an all-Protestant one, but the Supreme Court has yet to reflect this country's diversity."

The New York Post reports today that "9/11 families blast Kagan."

Yesterday's edition of The Boston Globe reported that "Personal ties bind Obama, Kagan; President joins ranks of picking friend for court." The newspaper also contained an op-ed by columnist Joan Vennochi entitled "The effort to 'out' Kagan" and an op-ed by columnist Joanna Weiss entitled "Kagan as a beacon for gays."

The Associated Press has an article headlined "Should we ask if Supreme Court nominee is gay?"

The Des Moines Register reports that "Grassley vote will signal his approach to court picks."

At Politico.com, Mike Allen reports that "White House to release Kagan theses."

In The Toronto Globe and Mail, Gil Troy has an op-ed entitled "A careerist conundrum of Supreme proportions: Did Elena Kagan somehow lose her voice and soul while climbing her way to the top?"

In The Los Angeles Times, columnist Gregory Rodriguez has an op-ed entitled "Kagan and the triumph of WASP culture: Her confirmation wouldn't undermine WASP culture; it would be a powerful example of its reach."

And in The Wall Street Journal, columnist L. Gordon Crovitz has an op-ed entitled "To Be Borked or Not to Be Borked: Kagan misses the real cause of empty confirmation hearings." You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google News.

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).