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News and Background
- Senate approves Kagan for high court
- Judiciary Committee approves Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, sending nomination to Senate
- Witnesses offer support, opposition to Kagan
- Kagan pledges judicial independence
- On Day 2, Kagan deploys humor and the artful dodge
- Confirmation hearing focuses on 'don't ask, don't tell'
- Hatch & Marshall in Historical Perspective
- Clinton Presidential Library Releases Additional Kagan Files
- Kagan hearings to begin with questions from left and right
- E-mails show confident, brassy side to Kagan
- Kagan notes label KKK and NRA as 'bad guy' organizations
- As Supreme Court justice, Kagan would be forced to sit out some big cases, muddying outcome
- Clinton Presidential Library Releases Additional Kagan Files
- Kagan pledges open mind, impartiality if confirmed to Supreme Court
- Clinton records give enough material for people to see what they want on high court pick Kagan
- As a young lawyer at high court, Kagan was on guard against Supreme Court's conservative shift
- White House Asks Clinton Library to Release Kagan Papers
- Was Supreme Court Nominee Kagan a Youthful Socialist?
- Kagan's relationship with Marshall cut both ways
- Can Kagan Bridge Divided Court? Consensus Is No
- A New York Bloc on the Supreme Court
- Elena Kagan is"a home run," says David Greenberg
- Elena Kagan, the"Establishment" candidate?
- Kagan Nomination Leaves Some Longing on the Left
- Elena Kagan: '10th justice' has deep legal knowledge but no bench experience
- Kagan predicted to have easy confirmation
- Kagan: A Climb Marked by Confidence and Canniness
- Obama nominates Elena Kagan for SCOTUS
Commentary
- David A. Strauss: The Kagan Hearings: Back to Conservative Activism?
- John Paul Rollert: The Surprising Star at Elena Kagan's Hearing: Thurgood Marshall
- Elizabeth Tandy Shermer: Economic Justice Before the High Court
- Jeffrey Rosen: Brandeis’s Seat, Kagan’s Responsibility
- Dahlia Lithwick: Kagan v. Marshall
- Mary L. Dudziak: Thurgood Marshall Got Kagan Treatment, Too
- John Nichols: Elena Kagan Embraces Jefferson's Original Intent
- Jonah Goldberg: The Un-Borkable Elena Kagan
- Dahlia Lithwick: Elena Kagan is"Green Tea" at Her Confirmation Hearings
- Howard Fineman: Roberts vs. Marshall at the Kagan Hearings
- Kathleen Gronnerud: What's Wrong With Kagan's Confirmation Hearings
- Aaron Zelinsky: Borking Barak: Why the Right's Newest Attack on Kagan Is Wrong
- Hendrik Hertzberg: Historians for Kagan
] - Mary L. Dudziak: Thurgood Marshall Got Kagan Treatment, Too
- Hendrik Hertzberg: Elena Kagan’s Not-So-Final Conflict
- David C. Rose: Elena Kagan and the Consequences of Consequentialist Thinking
- David Fontana: The Postradical Legal Generation
- John Yoo: An Executive Without Much Privilege
- Saul Cornell: Elena Kagan and the Case for an Elitist Supreme Court
- Ron Radosh: On Elena Kagan’s Senior Thesis: Sound Anti-Communist Labor History
- David Greenberg and Tony Michels: Elena Kagan Could Have Been a Great Historian
- Andrew Leonard: Elena Kagan's"Socialist" College Thesis
- Gil Troy: A Careerist Conundrum of Supreme Proportions
- Julian Zelizer: Senate Should Accept Kagan's '95 'Challenge'
- Marjorie Cohn: Kagan's Troubling Record
- Mary L. Dudziak: The Supremes and the Single Girl
- Linda Greenhouse: Just Answer the Question, Ms. Kagan
- David Brooks: The Proliferation of"Organization Kids"
- Dahlia Lithwick: The Limits of Influence
- Norman Solomon: Kagan in Context: Shafting Progressive Values
- Andrew Cohen: Elena Kagan and John Roberts: Yin and Yang or Two of a Kind?
- Gabriel Winant: Smart Money Says Kagan Will be Confirmed, with Some Grumbling
- Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Kagan is an Elitist Activist in a Jacksonian Era
- Paul Campos: Is Elena Kagan the Next Harriet Miers?
- Ilya Somin: Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination
- John Nichols: Will Kagan Take Up Stevens's Fight for Checks on Executive Power?
- Tom Goldstein: The Ten Biggest Issues Elena Kagan Will Face
- Jeffrey Rosen: The Next Justice
- Michael D. Shear: What Obama Sees in Kagan
- James Doty: The Liberal Case Against Kagan is Overstated
- Guy-Uriel Charles , Anupam Chander, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, and Angela Onwuachi-Willig: The White House's Kagan Talking Points are Wrong
- Charles Fried: Why Elena Kagan has Earned the Respect of Conservatives Like Me
- Chris Bray: My Experience as Grand Inquisitor Makes Me a Much More Tender and Gentle Person