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Elena Kagan
Index
- Judicial Nomination Materials
- Biography & Profiles
- Nomination for Solicitor General
- Supreme Court Arguments
- Marshall Papers
- Clinton White House Records
- Harvard Military Recruitment
- Second Amendment
- Opinion/Commentary
- Polling
- Senate Statements
Judicial Nomination Materials
- Hearing: Opening Statements
- Hearing: Transcript Day 1
- Hearing: Transcript Day 2
- Hearing: Transcript Day 3
- Responses to Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire (2010)
- Supplements and Attachments to Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire
- Responses to Questions Submitted for the Record
- Responses to Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire (1999 pt 1)
- Responses to Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire (1999 pt 2)
- Senior Thesis
- Oxford Thesis
- Judicial Crisis Network Memo Opposing Kagan
- People for the American Way Memo Supporting Kagan
- Alliance for Justice Memo Supporting Kagan
- National Rifle Association Letter Opposing Kagan
Biography & Profiles
- Bio
- Wikipedia
- Judgepedia
- Stuart Taylor profile
- New York Times: Kagan Biographical Milestones (interactive)
- Alliance for Justice profile
- Judicial Crisis Network: The Real Elena Kagan
- Tom Goldstein: 9750 words on Elena Kagan
- Ed Whelan: Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan
- Family Research Council profile
- Americans United for Life profile
Nomination for Solicitor General
- Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire (Publications, Public Statements, Memos)
- Senate Judiciary Committee, Transcript of Hearing
- Senate Judiciary Committee Responses to Questions for the Record
- Senate Judiciary Committee Letters Received
- Roll call vote for confirmation
Supreme Court Arguments
- Robertson v. United States ex rel. Watson (Transcript)
- Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (Transcript)
- United States v. Comstock (Transcript / Federalist Society Podcast)
- Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB (Transcript / Federalist Society Podcast)
- Salazar v. Buono (Transcript / Opinion / Federalist Society Podcast)
- Citizens United v. FEC (Transcript / Opinion / Federalist Society Podcast)
Marshall Papers
- Jan Crawford: Documents Show Kagan's Liberal Opinion on Social Issues (Links to memos below)
- Monmouth County Correctional Institutional Inmates v. Lanzaro (Abortion)
- Citizens v. Goose Creek (Race)
- Sandidge v. United States (Second Amendment)
- Miner v. New York State DOC (Marriage)
- Pughsley v. O’Leary (Strickland)
Clinton White House Records
- Clinton Library: Bruce Reed Collection
- Clinton Library: Domestic Policy Council
- Clinton Library: Domestic Policy Council (Boxes 69-70)
- Clinton Library: White House Counsel
- Clinton Library: White House Office of Records Management
- Clinton Library: Nomination to DC Circuit
- Clinton Library: Kagan e-mails (Composed)
- Clinton Library: Kagan e-mails (Received)
- Clinton Library: Kagan e-mails (Federal)
- Julie Hirschfeld Davis: Kagan pushed liberal policies with pragmatism
- Partial Birth Abortion Documents
- Cloning Documents
- Gun Control Documents
- Climate Change Documents
Harvard Military Recruitment
- Kagan States Her Case Before Lambda
- Students Rally Against Military Recruitment on Campus
- HLS Bans Military Recruiting
- Military Recruitment Roils Campus
- Kagan e-mails school
- Letter from Dean Kagan on Military Recruiting
- Law Schools Sue Over Military Recruiting
- FAIR v. Rumsfeld - Third Circuit Brief
- Rumsfeld v. FAIR - Supreme Court Brief
- Supreme Court Opinion
- Pete Winn: Kagan Decided "Not to Follow the Law" When She Barred JAG Recruiters from Harvard, Former GITMO Prosecutor Says
- E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Elena Kagan You Won't See
- Media Matters: Whelan Pushes False Comparison to Paint Kagan as Anti-Military
- Ed Whelan: Media Matters' Distortion of Kagan's Record on Solomon Amendment
- Robert Clark: Kagan and the Military, What Really Happened
- Ed Whelan: On Robert Clark on Kagan and the Military
- Peter Beinart: The Problem with Elena Kagan
- Media Matters: Myths and falsehoods about Elena Kagan
Second Amendment
- Kagan Memo on Firearm Importation
- Kagan Memo to Justice Marshall
- James Oliphant: Kagan helped draft Clinton policies on welfare reform, gun control
- David Kopel: Kagan Wrote the Clinton Ban on Gun Imports
- Bloomberg: Kagan Was "Not Sympathetic" as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument
- Ed Whelan: Kagan on Second Amendment
- Brian Darling: Kagan's Gun Problem
Opinion/Commentary
- Tom Goldstein Predicts Kagan for SCOTUS
- LA Times: Supreme Court candidate Elena Kagan has admirers left and right
- New York Times: Potential Justice’s Appeal May Be Too Bipartisan
- Wendy Long: The Myth of Kagan and the Conservatives
- Ed Whelan: Obama's SG Pick Elena Kagan
- Ed Whelan: Obama's SG Pick Elena Kagan-Part 2
- Ed Whelan: Obama's SG Pick Elena Kagan-Part 3
- David L. Hudson Jr.: Solicitor-general nominee: impressive First Amendment resume
- LA Times: Solicitor general nominee says 'enemy combatants' can be held without trial
- Flagg K. Youngblood: Solicitor general flimflam
- Emily Bazelon: What Will Kill the Next Supreme Court Nominee?
- Ed Whelan: Emily Bazelon’s Feeble Defense of Elena Kagan
- Ed Whelan: Will the Left Oppose Elena Kagan?
- Glenn Greenwald: The Case Against Elena Kagan
- Lawrence Lessig: A Case for Kagan
- Glenn Greenwald: Larry Lessig's "Case for Kagan" is The Opposite
- Peter Beinart: Elena Kagan's Achilles' Heel
- Ed Whelan: Liberals versus Elena Kagan
- Ed Whelan: Elena Kagan vs. Merrick Garland
- James Doty: On the Supreme Court, Not a Lot of Respect for Elena Kagan
- Media Matters: Media still distorting Kagan's record on military recruiting at Harvard
- Carrie Severino: Kagan to Federalist Society: "You are not my people"
- Carrie Severino: Kagan is nice to conservatives, but she's no moderate
- Paul Mirengoff: The stealth law professor
- Jon Ward: Liberal activists intensify attacks on Kagan as court pick nears
- Paul Campos: The Next Harriet Miers?
- Paul Campos: Blank Slate
- Kevin Drum: Elena Kagan's (Non) Record
- Matt Kelley: Possible Supreme Court pick had ties with Goldman Sachs
- Sam Stein: Elena Kagan's Goldman Sachs ties brought up again
- Law Professors: We question Harvard Law's diversity record under Elena Kagan
- Ed Whelan: On Tom Goldstein on Elena Kagan
- Tom Goldstein: Where we go from here
- Judicial Crisis Network: Conservative Reactions to nomination
- Legal Times: Advocates React to Kagan Nomination
- John Podesta: A Much-Needed Progressive Voice on the Court
- Ian Millhiser: A Victory for Equal Justice
- Planned Parenthood: Statement from Cecile Richards
- Jennifer Rubin: Leftists beware: Kagan favored ban on late-term abortions
- Ramesh Ponnuru: Kagan on Partial Birth Abortion
- NRO Symposium: Now What?
Polling
- Rasmussen, June 29-30, 1000 likely voters, Elena Kagan
- CNN/Opinion Research Corporation, June 16, 534 adults, Elena Kagan
- Rasmussen, June 7-8, 1000 likely voters, Elena Kagan
- Gallup, May 24-25, 1049 adults, Elena Kagan
- Rasmussen, May 24-25, 1000 likely voters, Elena Kagan
- Rasmussen, May 16-17, 1000 likely voters, Elena Kagan
- Rasmussen, May 12-13, 1000 likely voters, Supreme Court
- Rasmussen, May 10, 1000 likely voters, Elena Kagan
- Gallup, May 10, 1004 adults, Elena Kagan
- Gallup, May 3-6, 1028 adults, Supreme Court nomination
- Washington Post/ABC News, April 22-25, 1001 adults, Supreme Court nomination
- Pew Research Center, April 21-26, 1546 adults, Supreme Court nomination
- FOX News/OD, April 20-21, 900 registered voters, Supreme Court nomination
- Judicial Crisis Network, April 16-19, 1000 adults, Supreme Court nomination
- Rasmussen, April 16-17, 1000 likely voters, Supreme Court nomination
- Quinnipiac University, April 14-19, 1930 registered voters, Supreme Court nomination
- CNN/ORC, April 9-11, 1008 adults, Supreme Court nomination
- FOX News/OD, April 6-10, 900 registered voters, Supreme Court nomination
Senate Statements
- Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
- Senator John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Senator Mark Begich (D-AK)
- Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO)
- Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
- Senator Scott Brown (R-MA)
- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Senator Roland Burris (D-IL)
- Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
- Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE)
- Senator Robert Casey (D-PA)
- Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
- Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)
- Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
- Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)
- Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI)
- Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
- Senator Al Franken (D-MN)
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC)
- Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
- Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
- Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)
- Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE)
- Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD)
- Senator Edward Kaufman (D-DE)
- Senator John Kerry (D-MA)
- Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI)
- Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
- Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
- Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
- Senator George LeMieux
- Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT)
- Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
- Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
- Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE)
- Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR)
- Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
- Senator James Risch (R-ID)
- Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL)
- Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
- Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA)
- Senator Jon Tester (D-MT)
- Senator John Thune (R-SD)
- Senator Mark Udall (D-CO)
- Senator Tom Udall (D-NM)
- Senator David Vitter (R-LA)
- Senator George Voinovich (R-OH)
- Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Diane Wood
- Bio
- Wikipedia
- Judgepedia
- Stuart Taylor profile
- New York Times profile
- Alliance for Justice profile
- Diane Wood: National Organization for Women profile
- Diane Wood: Video, A Dialogue About Political Philosophy and the Judge's Role
- Jeffrey Rosen: Good Wood, the Second Coming of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Ed Whelan: Jeffrey Rosen and Diane Wood
- Glenn Greenwald: The long, clear, inspiring record of Diane Wood
- Tony Mauro: Blackmun Had High Praise for Clerk Diane Wood
- Emily Bazelon: What Will Kill the Next Supreme Court Nominee?
- Steven Ertelt: Potential Obama Supreme Court Nominee Diane Wood Strongly Pro-Abortion
- Ed Whelan: Supreme Court Candidate Diane Wood - A Summary
- Ed Whelan: Supreme Court Candidate Diane Wood - Part 1
- Ed Whelan: Supreme Court Candidate Diane Wood - Part 2
- Ed Whelan: Supreme Court Candidate Diane Wood - Part 3
- Ed Whelan: Supreme Court Candidate Diane Wood - Part 4
- Ed Whelan: Supreme Court Candidate Diane Wood - Part 5
- David Kopel: Diane Wood on the Second Amendment
- David Dayen: Diane Wood’s Similar Case Record To Stevens Makes Her Ineligible To Replace Him
Merrick Garland
- Bio
- Wikipedia
- Judgepedia
- Stuart Taylor profile
- Washington Post profile
- Alliance for Justice profile
- Paul Mirengoff: The Uses of Merrick Garland
- Tom Goldstein: Analysis of Merrick Garland's record
- David Kopel: Merrick Garland is no Friend of the Rights of Gun Owners
- David Dayen: Conservatives Baiting Obama To Pick Merrick Garland
- John Heilemann: The President and the Persuader
- Mike Scarcella: Making a Supreme short list
- Charlie Savage: How Bombing Case Helped Shape Career of a Potential Justice
Other Possible Nominees
- New York Times: In Possible Retirement, the Likelihood of an Election-Year Confrontation
- Ed Whelan: NY Times on Filling Potential Stevens Vacancy
- Janet Napolitano: Alliance for Justice profile
- Janet Napolitano: National Organization for Women profile
- Janet Napolitano: Stuart Taylor profile
- Janet Napolitano: CNN: Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist groups
- Janet Napolitano: LifeNews: Obama Picks Pro-Abortion Napolitano for Homeland Security, But Helps Arizona
- Leah Ward Sears: Alliance for Justice profile
- Leah Ward Sears: National Organization for Women profile
- Leah Ward Sears: Jonathan Rauch: In Praise Of Leah Ward Sears
- Leah Ward Sears: 2006 Column: A Case for Strengthening Marriage
- Leah Ward Sears: Atlanta Journal Constitution: Justice stumped on gay marriage
- Jennifer Granholm: Alliance for Justice profile
- Jennifer Granholm: LifeNews: Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm Vetoes Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
- Jennifer Granholm: Detroit Free Press: Granholm on affirmative action
Websites
- The Federalist Society
- American Bar Association
- Georgetown Law Library: Supreme Court Nominations Research Guide
- Senate Judiciary Committee
- Alliance for Justice: Supreme Court Watch
- People for the American Way: Fair and Just Courts
- Judicial Crisis Network
