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Saturday, May 15, 2010

“Review set for 160,000 pages on Kagan”: Josh Gerstein has this post at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.

The Harvard Crimson has an article headlined “Elena Kagan’s Management Style Amped Up Pressure at Harvard Law School; In creating a culture of high expectations, Kagan placed strain on working relationships, some HLS staffers say.”

And the May 21, 2010 issue of The Forward contains an article headlined “Kagan’s ‘Hood: Liberal, Precocious, Very Jewish; Unlike Others, Her Family Didn’t Decamp to a Fancier Address.”

Posted at 11:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kagan’s abortion stance has both sides guessing; The Supreme Court nominee sounded like a staunch liberal in a 1980 essay, but pushed for compromise on a 1997 ban on late-term abortions”: Christi Parsons and James Oliphant will have this article Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.

In Sunday’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Liptak will have articles headlined “On Speech, Kagan Leaned Toward Conservatives” and “No Vote-Trading Here.” Tomorrow’s newspaper will also contain an article headlined “Then Comes the Marriage Question.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that “NRA Criticizes Kagan on Gun Rights.”

Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal reports that “Kagan’s Rookie Missteps Could Fuel Claims of Inexperience; Still, her confidence as solicitor general has been apparent, despite tangles with Roberts, loss in ‘Citizens United.’

The Associated Press has reports headlined “‘General Kagan’ holds her own before high court” and “NAACP backs Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Kagan.”

And today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” contained an audio segment entitled “A Republican Senator Weighs Kagan’s Merits Again.”

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gruesome death photos are at the forefront of an Internet privacy battle; A car crash victim’s father is suing the CHP over the wide dissemination of pictures of his daughter’s body”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 5:30 PM by Howard Bashman