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“Two of the most influential justices ever to sit on the Supreme Court -- Thurgood Marshall and Antonin Scalia -- probably couldn’t get confirmed to the bench today,” Roll Call writes. “So say scholars and Senators who argue that the high court has turned into such a political battleground that recent presidents now eschew nominating individuals like Marshall and Scalia. Instead, they argue, presidents are trending in favor of nominees who, like current Supreme Court hopeful Elena Kagan, have spent their lives avoiding controversy.”
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The repugnant ones will stoop to any low to try to stop Elena Kagan's confirmation. Just too many dirty political games now as the dopes of nope just want to stop our federal government from functioning then whine it's broken, yeah they broke it and refuse to help fix it.
How sad and true, that partisan politics forces presidents away from the Thurgood Marshalls who are out there, the big thinkers both progressive and conservative. The divide has become so great it makes me wonder how the big problems facing our country can be addressed--we already suffer from the inability of Congress to make the tough decisions needed to pay down the ever-mounting debt, fix social security and medicare along with a host of other issues that must be solved. How much longer before the dysfunctional Senate filibuster makes the country dysfunctional? At what point do both parties in Congress realize the danger to our democracy of political posturing?
The real pretence, is the media trying to pawn people like Roberts and Alito of as centrists
So a lawyer defends a paying client. It happens all the time. Does that mean the lawyer agrees with the client? Doing their job the support the one paying for them or their client seems to me to be doing their job. If Kagen supported Bill Clinton she was doing her job, the one her client paid her to do. Can Kagen be neutral, perhaps she can. She can be as neutral as any on the bench today.