Solicitor General Elena Kagan was easily confirmed Thursday as the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, completing the 50-year-old native New Yorker’s climb to the peak of the American legal profession.
The 63-37 vote was mostly along party lines. Five GOP senators backed Kagan, and only one Democrat — Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska — opposed her. Republican leaders offered spirited floor opposition to the nominee, but were unable to muster a prolonged delay or filibuster of the vote.
Kagan is set to begin a lifetime position as the nation’s 112th justice. She will be sworn into office Saturday afternoon, taking the traditional constitutional and judicial oaths. The newest justice will then be able to assume her court duties immediately.
Her brisk confirmation was a political victory for President Barack Obama — who placed Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the high court last year — and for Senate Democrats.
Obama after the vote predicted Kagan will be an “outstanding Supreme Court justice,” and thanked senators for giving his nominee a fair and timely hearing.
(Source: CNN)
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Nothing like extending the Obama Regime until she decides to hang up her robe or until G-d decides it time for her to hang up her robe. There is a reason Obama wanted her… because she is EXACTLY like him with 2 exceptions. The 2 are that she is female and the other is more than obvious!
Mark, unfortunately it is obvious. She isn’t even a Tinok Shenishba, she was a Frum Yidishe Meidele until she ‘saw the light’. She thinks that we discriminate against woman and therefore not religious in that sense. She’s a hardcore liberal Toeiva’nick that will push the Obama agenda that wasn’t worthy enough to earn one vote from her own party. Shame on her and us! We shall only hope and pray that she will return to her roots and become a reliable conservative vote that is approved by the Torah.