Cases to Watch for the Most Conservative Supreme Court in Years

by Victor Goode on October 4 2010, 10:35AM

Immigration, prison overcrowding, prosecutorial overreaching and the culture wars are all on the docket.

Topics: Criminal Justice, Immigration

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That’s the Way She Likes to Judge: Luther Campbell Backs Kagan

by Channing Kennedy on July 8 2010, 4:54PM

The would-be Supreme Court justice helped defend 2 Live Crew from obscenity charges.

Topics: Elena Kagan

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Civil Rights Groups Not as Hot for Kagan as She Is for Marshall

by Naima Ramos-Chapman on June 29 2010, 4:33PM

Endorsements come with qualifications, if at all.

Topics: Elena Kagan

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Kagan Hearings: Thurgood Marshall Goes on Trial

by Kai Wright on June 29 2010, 12:02PM

Reports from Elena Kagan’s Senate confirmation hearings.

Topics: Elena Kagan

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Kyl Shoots and Misses on Kagan Immigration Brief

by Seth Freed Wessler on June 28 2010, 3:26PM

The senator hopes to put Kagan on the spot for the administration’s brief challenging (likely unconstitutional) another Arizona law. He ought to know she didn’t write it.

Topics: Elena Kagan

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ColorLines’ Fantasy Supreme Court

by Kai Wright on June 28 2010, 10:02AM

This spring, we asked our favorite court watchers for a list of people they’d love to see on the court—but who’d never be seriously mentioned as nominees.

Topics: Kai Wright

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Elena Kagan is No Thurgood Marshall

by Dom Apollon on May 12 2010, 12:00PM

Obama’s second Supreme Court nominee clerked for one of history’s greatest racial justice champions. You wouldn’t know it by looking at her career since.

Topics: Elena Kagan

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Kagan’s Harvard Hiring Record a Vision in White

by Kai Wright on May 10 2010, 10:41AM

President Obama pointed out this morning that Solicitor General Elena Kagan, his pick to replace Justice Stevens, was the first woman to lead Harvard Law School. He noted Kagan’s reputation for broadening Harvard’s faculty to include more conservative viewpoints, to…

Topics: Elena Kagan

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A Fantasy Supreme Court

by Jamilah King, Hatty Lee on May 6 2010, 12:00PM

Nine legal rabble-rousers who’d never make President Obama’s shortlist. But we can dream.

Topics: Elena Kagan

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