Belatedly: Obama chooses Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

[Kuya]

I've seen no threads about this, so mind as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/..._supreme_court

WASHINGTON – Introducing his Supreme Court nominee to the nation, President Barack Obama on Monday portrayed Elena Kagan as a guiding force for a fractured court and a champion of typical Americans. She would be the youngest justice on the court and give it three women for the first time in history.

Less excited, Republican senators said they would give the nomination a long, hard look in potentially contentious summertime confirmation hearings. One declared he would oppose her, but Democrats hold a strong majority of Senate seats, making eventual approval likely.

In choosing Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general and a former dean of Harvard Law School, Obama sought someone he hopes will seal majority votes on a divided court, as the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens sometimes had the ability to do. The president, who said Kagan has "one of the nation's foremost legal minds," wanted someone who could counter the court's conservative leaders as well as sway votes with her thinking and temperament.

From what i've heard, there's not much info on her to say how liberal or conservative she would be, which is why it's strange that the Obama administration might want liberals to take it on a leap of faith that she would be liberal enough for a court that leans sharply towards the right.

[Blarg]

female, chubby, short hair

activist liberal lesbian!

[Rothbardian]

Yeah, no worries that she is Anti-Free Speech, she's a woman and that's all that matters!

"Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs." Awesome. I mean, that Congress shall make no law abridging, doesn't actually exist. Cool.

[wagon]

female, chubby, short hair

activist liberal lesbian!

Maybe this is obama's Trojan horse strategy to have the supreme court legalize gay marriage.

[archibaldcrane]

Yeah, no worries that she is Anti-Free Speech, she's a woman and that's all that matters!

"Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs." Awesome. I mean, that Congress shall make no law abridging, doesn't actually exist. Cool.

Yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater, etc.

However, was that quote discussing a particular case? If so, what was it?

[Rothbardian]

Yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater, etc.

However, was that quote discussing a particular case? If so, what was it?

It was her brief in United States vs Stevens.

The case concerned a statute that made it criminally unlawful to depict animal cruelty.

She has also authored many books on the regulation of Speech.