Wingnut conspiracy alert!!!!!!!!! Apparently President Obama has secretly declared diabetes a disability! Here’s Ed Morissey at HotAir: That seems to be the message from the White House, which is apparently a little desperate to make the case that Barack Obama has proven his historical and diversity mettle in judicial nominations. In a new infographic for […]
Fox really knows their viewers and their lack of education, especially when it comes to the U.S. Constitution: For the second day in a row, Fox’s “straight news” division has hyped the claim that U.S Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan should recuse herself from the case involving the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable […]
This is one comparison I am really getting tired of: The Obama Administration needs to recall that George W. Bush’s first nominee, Harriet Miers, was withdrawn after twenty-three days under not dissimilar circumstances: insufficient evidence in the nominee’s record to encourage his political base to become enthused about the nominee. First off, John Roberts was […]
The big news today is President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan. I’ll be the first to admin that I don’t really know that much about Kagan. Eliot Spitzer, a long time friend of Kagan’s, was out today giving her big praises. To me, that endorsement is enough to say she […]
The retirement of Justice Stevens is really not good news for those of us on the left: The leading prospects — U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and federal appellate judges Merrick Garland and Diane Wood — are relative moderates. Kagan has backed strong presidential authority over national security; rulings by Garland and Wood suggest they […]