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Opinion: Judicial Activism Has a New Face

(July 2) -- If you want to make a progressive tremble, yell "judicial activist" and laugh as they cower under their desk in fear. At least, that's been the pattern for the past two decades of judicial confirmation hearings. So when Elena Kagan took her seat at the beginning of her confirmation hearing, her opponents were...

Kagan Insists She Didn't Block Military at Harvard

WASHINGTON (June 29) -- Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan maneuvered carefully through tough Republican questioning on military recruitment at Harvard Law School, gun owners' rights and free speech Tuesday, giving little ground to critics and drawing strong praise from Senate Democrats who command the votes to confirm...

Kagan Pledges to Be Unbiased, Deferential to Congress

WASHINGTON (June 28) -- Elena Kagan pledged to be a model of impartiality and restraint as a Supreme Court justice as the Senate opened confirmation hearings Monday, but she still braced for a grilling by Republicans who suggest she'd let liberal views color her rulings. Breaking weeks of public silence since President...

Opinion: Could Scalia Get Confirmed by Today's Conservatives?

(June 28) -- Justice Antonin Scalia is supposed to be a right-wing icon. He's an outspoken defender of torture and once wrote that mere innocence is not a good enough reason to let an innocent man go free. His dissent in a landmark gay rights decision boiled down to little more than a paranoid rant against the "homosexual...