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1:05 PM ET, May 10, 2010

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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP uses Thurgood Marshall to attack Kagan  —  Republicans are questioning Elena Kagan's ties to a liberal icon and the nation's first African American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.  —  In its first memo to reporters since Kagan's nomination to the high court became public …
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New York Times:
Obama Is Said to Choose Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country's future …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Supreme Irony - Kagan Nomination Ends Gay Marriage Hopes  —  Later this morning, Elena Kagan will be nominated for the Supreme Court seat currently held by John Paul Stevens.  —  The meme has taken hold that Kagan is a stealth candidate who has avoided taking positions on important constitutional or other issues throughout her career.
New York Times:
Kagan's Climb Is Marked by Confidence and Canniness  —  WASHINGTON — She was a creature of Manhattan's liberal, intellectual Upper West Side — a smart, witty girl who was bold enough at 13 to challenge her family's rabbi over her bat mitzvah, cocky (or perhaps prescient) …
msnbc.com:
NBC: Obama to name Kagan for high court  —  Kagan, 50, is currently solicitor general; would be court's third woman  —  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, NBC News' Pete Williams reported late Sunday night.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
What Obama sees in Kagan  —  It's Kagan!  —  Why is President Obama choosing his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, as his second nominee to the U.S Supreme Court?  By all accounts, Obama wants someone who can serve as a counterweight to the intellectual heft of Chief Justice John Roberts.
The Politico:
Obama to Senate: Act fast  —  President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court Monday - calling her a legal trailblazer who would embody “that same excellence, independence, integrity and passion for the law” as the man she would replace, retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
New York Times:
Obama Picks Kagan as Justice Nominee  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama introduced Solicitor General Elena Kagan on Monday as his choice to become the nation's 112th justice of the Supreme Court, hailing her as a “one of the nation's foremost legal minds,” as he girded for a battle over whether it takes a judge to serve on the court.
Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
Elena Kagan's Nomination  —  President Obama is set to nominate Elena Kagan, the Solicitor General, to the Supreme Court today.  —  I should make a disclosure.  I met Elena on our first day of law school at Harvard in the fall of 1983.  We were introduced by a mutual friend …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
So Is She Gay?  —  It is no more of an empirical question than whether she is Jewish.
Discussion: The Stranger …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Elana Kagan  —  The news that Barack Obama will nominate Elana Kagan …
Americans For Truth:   If Elena Kagan Is a Lesbian, She Should Say So because Public Has a Right to Know
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Seven Republicans voted for Kagan in 2009
action.afa.net:
Is she or isn't she?  Let's ask her  —  Speculation continues …
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Roland S. Martin / CNN:   Opinion: A diversity double-standard
Carol Platt Liebau / Townhall.com:
So It's Kagan
Discussion: Commentary
Conn Carroll / The Foundry:
Morning Bell: Former Attorney General Ed Meese on Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
Radley Balko / Hit & Run:
“She is certainly a fan of presidential power.”
Media Matters for America:
Conservative opposition to Kagan is motivated by politics, not substance
Discussion: Washington Monthly
James Doty / Salon:
The liberal case against Kagan is overstated
Ezra Klein:
Who is Europe really bailing out?  —  Tyler Cowen has some smart thoughts on the European Union's announcement of a $750 billion euro bailout fund: … More here.  Remember that this is no more a bailout of Greece and Spain and Portugal than TARP was a bailout of subprime borrowers.
Discussion: Deal Journal
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BBC:
Brown to quit as Labour leader  —  Gordon Brown has said he is stepping down as Labour Party leader.  —  Mr Brown, prime minister since 2007, said he wanted a successor to be in place by the time of the party's conference in September.  —  Mr Brown announced his intention to quit …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Andrew Sparrow / Guardian:
Brown to quit as Labour leader to woo Lib Dems
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
DCCC pulls out of Hawaii special election  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is pulling out of the Hawaii special election for Rep. Neil Abercrombie's (D) seat, effectively handing the seat to the Republicans.  —  “The DCCC will not be investing additional resources in the …
Discussion: CNN
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Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
DCCC Pulls Out Of Hawaii  —  The DCCC is pulling out of the race to replace ex-Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), effectively ceding the heavily Dem seat to the GOP as intra-party feuding splits the vote.  —  “The DCCC will not be investing additional resources in the HI-01 (Abercrombie-open) special election.
Jessica Taylor / The Politico:
DCCC pulls plug on Hawaii special
Discussion: The Note
Aljean Harmetz / New York Times:
Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92  —  Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Divorce and Abortion: Red States and Blue States  —  Fifty years ago, American family structures were remarkably uniform.  The rich married at roughly the same rate as the poor and middle class.  Divorce rates were low for the college educated and high school graduates alike.
Discussion: Don Surber
Mike / Maine Politics:
Maine Republicans Adopt Tea Party Platform  —  An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activists.  —  The official platform for the Republican Party …
 
 
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