Thurgood Marshall Takes Center Stage At Kagan Hearings

[one_voice]

Looks like Senate Judiciary Republicans have at least one unified talking point today: Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to ever serve on the Supreme Court, was an "activist judge." As Elena Kagan kept on her listening face, multiple senators slammed both Marshall's judicial philosophy and her service as his clerk in the late 1980s.

Ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) criticized Kagan for having " associated herself with well-known activist judges who have used their power to redefine the meaning of our constitution and have the result of advancing that judge's preferred social policies," citing Marshall as his son, Thurgood Marshall, Jr., sat in the audience of the Judiciary Committee hearings.

In an example of how much the GOP focused on Marshall, his name came up 35 times. President Obama's name was mentioned just 14 times today.

Sessions said Kagan's reverence for Marshall "tells us much about the nominee," and he meant that more as an indictment than a compliment.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/thurgood-marshall-takes-center-stage-at-kagan-hearings.php


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[Bitwit1234]

1. From the republicans in congress who saddled us with

Thomas, Scalia and more recently Alitio and Roberts I think they have a hell of a lot of nerve to say Kagan would be partianisan....who said corporations were the same as people and could contribute untold and unaccountable money to elect the republican of their choice. Stick a sock in it Cornyn and I'd like to fill full of the BS you are spewing.

[izquierdista]

2. Now I know why he's not still a judge

Decided the white robe was better on him than the black one.

[damntexdem]

3. But don't the Rethugs think that he was Thurevil Marshall?

;-)