Reports from WashingtonCalling a woman "pioneer," Obama announced his candidacy for the Elena Kagan to the Attorney General in the Supreme Court in a ceremony at the White House Monday morning.
Kagan has won the award of "all the ideological spectrum," Obama said, praising the openness "to a broad spectrum of views" and what he said, used to understand "before they disagree. "
"He tried to recruit leaders who are conservative, when he said the Dean of Harvard Law School, Obama, and encouraged students and discuss in general the law can not work in practice and Welcomed. Support for the head of the U.S. government each day and studied law attorneys.
"I think it speaks volumes about its commitment to protect our basic rights," Obama said. "That says one know about how Elena has chosen."
Kagan will replace Justice John Paul Stevens, who announced his resignation after last month instead of nearly 35 years at the High Court hearing of a Senate Judiciary Committee before the end of June, July or early may. Kagan, who confirmed the story of one page: This is the first time, Three women sit on the Supreme Court.
remember the scene in the White House, the public, that the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor Obama last year before last. Candidates for political allies and friends gala in the Grand Foyer of the White House to move a pianist to play while waiting for the announcement in the middle atmosphere.
Government officials hope, the verification process will also be Sotomayor. Although broiler Republic harmony Sotomayor, in addition to judicial philosophy and focus on the presidential election "empathy" as a special attribute, has confirmed easily too big.
In this case, of course, to ensure goods Republican legislators who do not want to alienate Latino voters look to the higher courts.
Kagan district closer to the White House, saw the gold, bordered by the East Room, Monday morning. The room was long absent member of the Clinton administration. Kagan introduced Obama told the audience as "my friend."
In his speech, Obama praised the commitment to refrain Stevens' and respect for precedent and raise awareness about the impact of court decisions.
"While we can not assume the wisdom and experience, Obama said, would be replaced, Kagan can" finally give the kind of leadership in this area. "
Kagan said she felt as "one of the most attractive lawyer and humiliating tasks can be" blessed "to represent the Government of the United States Supreme Court"
He praised the work of Judge John Paul Stevens said, the commitment to the law - the key word in the White House to add arguments to the court Kagan. Said the president was disappointed that the Court has recently hit the campaign finance law through its decisions and citizens of Citizens United, the decades of precedent. ware Kagan said officials did not repeat a situation like barriers.
"Issues of law," said Kagan know. "It remains for us it was safe to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms .."
How Stevens has a relationship Kagan of Chicago. He taught with Obama in the University of Chicago Law School in the 1990s, before the White House during the Clinton administration. There he appeared as a consultant to domestic policy president. Then he became the first woman dean at Harvard Law School and is credited for reviving the school.
Kagan has been confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General of the scientific tradition of the last vote 61-31. As attorney general, he pleaded for the government and lost, the case of United States citizens.
At the age of 50 years, will be the youngest member of the Court de Kagan, that without previous experience. He will be the fourth in New York developed Worden, Justice Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and after Sonia Sotomayor. Kagan grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Hunter College High School.
This follows in the flesh for the third consecutive justice as a student at Princeton. Samuel A. Sotomayor and Judge Alito Jr. graduated from Princeton. His appointment is also retiring from the court without a Protestant for the first time. Currently six of the Catholic Church and two Jewish judges, as Kagan.
As dean of Harvard, Kagan developing good relations with conservative professors, graduate students and even progressive credentials.
He never held a dinner party for the conservative justices Antonin Scalia, when he was 20 Signs warning of the Supreme Court, he was drawn back and applause from members of the Federalist Society on the campus of the National Convention.
Partly, because some liberal activists reviews Kagan has come to examine the potential of one of the most conservative person in the list of job candidates Obama.
Presidential advisers, however, is to find a progressive thinker capable of similarities with the law on the left-right spectrum.
Obama advisers say that what the President sought: a candidate who can work to keep the five conservatives running for four Liberal Rough Justice.
Kagan term is not a big surprise in political circles, playing for months in which his name was. It seems to be a likely candidate for the position of the Supreme Court, opened last spring, but not named Obama Sotomayor.
If Stevens announced his resignation, Kagan is assumed that incoming PATH in order for the nomination. In Science and Politics, he worked with key players in the circle of Obama.
Irrespective of the year as a Professor of Law, has managed to avoid standing Kagan on controversial subjects like abortion or affirmative action. While at Harvard, the key, but discussed any action, that if the Campus Recruiter to a military camp for his students to interview. Harvard and some other law schools must Political recruiters for employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation food.
With the process of the Supreme Court, the judges unanimously confirmed the power of Congress, to demand equal treatment of military recruiters.
Some conservative Republicans said the Senate should question Kagan, a criminal responsibility because he was healthy. They cite the decision in the scientific tradition in 1995 Pages, which states that candidates for senator to discuss their views on the legal controversy. In the article, he states that the Senate is expected to play "dull and empty", which may interfere with the candidate "" Details about their views and to avoid actual. Clarence Thomas is confirmed, although "a substantive statement of national laughing stock," he wrote.
"It is important that the Senate go Kagan Kagan standards," said Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "Among the candidates for the Supreme Court in the last 50 years or more, Kagan potential candidates with relevant experience at least."
Carrie Severino, a board member of the European Judicial Network Interest Emergency Committee, a conservative group, Kagan, will choose the focus of the debate about its status as the people in government, the cost for "Seals of domestic legislation on the agenda of the President when it comes to Health reform and financial regulation in a court challenge.
The Liberal Party has lined up behind him.
"He has a very good chance to be and will be," said Harvard law professor Laurence H. Tribe. "He has a mastery of the various areas of law and examined and recently Worden .. this script is not productive, also confirmed a plus."
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President Barack Obama names Elena Kagan his Supreme Court pick - latimes.com
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