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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Kagan Sits in Judgment of Obamacare—Despite Cheering Its Passage and
Assigning Lawyer to Defend It
By Terence P. Jeffrey
March 26, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - When the Supreme Court on Monday began hearing oral
arguments in the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act—AKA “Obamacare”—Supreme Court Justice
Elena Kagan showed up to hear the arguments and gave no indication she
would recuse herself from judging the cases even though she had cheered
enactmen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 By Terence P. Jeffrey
December 14, 2011
Considering the debate around President Barack Obama's health care plan and
the lawsuits filed against it, then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan's written
answers to some of the 13 written questions relating to Obamacare that
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans submitted to her during her Supreme
Court confirmation process were remarkably simple and straightforward.
"No," she said.
That was how she answered question No. 2, which inquired if she had eve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 3 Politico.com的博主Ben Smith与Elena Kagan的一些密友交谈，Kagan的所有这些密友们都说她不是同性恋。
Kagan在法学院的室友及密友Sarah Walzer说：她成年时期的大部分时间我都认识她，
我知道她是直人。我们在法学院的时候她和男人约会，我们谈论男人----谁在我们班最
帅，她想和谁约会等等这类话题。她毕业以后在D.C.和在芝加哥的时候肯定约会过，她
只是没找到合适的人。
Kagan's Friends: She's Not Gay
By Advocate.com Editors
Kagan 5/11 x390 (Getty) I Advocate.com
Politico.com’s Ben Smith has talked to some of Elena Kagan’s best friends,
and they’ve all told him that the Supreme Court nominee isn’t gay.
“I’ve known her for most of her adult life and I know she |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says her colleague Antonin
Scalia deserves a lot of credit for getting the high court to divine what
laws mean by focusing on the words Congress used.
Kagan says the art of interpreting statutes has changed for the better in
the past 30 years, largely because of Scalia.
The liberal Kagan says the conservative Scalia will go down in history for
his insistence that justices look more to the words of a law than they used
to.
Kagan spoke Thursday night... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 Elena Kagan moves up to big-game hunting with Antonin Scalia
By The Reliable Source, Published: July 1, 2013 at 1:29 pm
Kagan (Bill O'Leary / The Washington Post)
It’s official: Elena Kagan is now a full-fledged hunter, thanks to her work
buddy Antonin Scalia.
Last year, the liberal-leaning Supreme Court justice startled the world with
her revelation that she had hunted quail with her conservative colleague.
Seems like the new hobby stuck. At the Aspen Ideas Festival on Saturday,
Kagan revealed ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 6 Obama Names Kagan to High Court
By Advocate.com Editors
Kagan Closeup x390 (Getty)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDO0W6QxsN4&feature=player_embedded
President Barack Obama on Monday morning named 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.
Kagan would be the fourth woman to serve on the court. She served as the
dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009 and was nominated by Obama
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发帖数: 145 | 7 某参议员问Kagan，对同性恋婚姻权的问题怎么看。
Kagan说：这时候问这问题不太恰当。（加州prop 8的案子几乎肯定会打到最高法院）
btw, Kagan应该不是les。虽然我也不知道les一般长啥样，但是有不少Kagan的亲朋故
旧出来证明她不是les。
倒是加州prop 8的案子，主审法官Walker是公开的gay。抽签轮到他审这个案子。 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 8 Elena Kagan Sworn In
By Advocate.com Editors
ELENA KAGAN X390 (GETTY IMAGES) | ADVOCATE.COM
Elena Kagan was sworn in Saturday morning as the 112th justice to serve on
the Supreme Court.
The former dean of Harvard Law School took two required oaths from Chief
Justice John Roberts, promising in her second oath to “do equal right to
the poor and to the rich.” She succeeds Justice John Paul Stevens.
Kagan was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Thursday with the backing of
nearly all Democrats, two in |
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发帖数: 19713 | 9 我们一同事，中国人，很早年来的美国，娶了个美国老婆，中文已经完全不会说了，不
吃中餐、不认识中国字。今天跟他聊天，他跟着他的犹太老婆信了犹太教，他说起犹太
人圣诞前夜都吃中餐这个传统笑话，我随口说：Judge Kagan有一次也说过这个笑话，
他说他不知道Judge Kagan是谁。我很惊讶，再问问身边土生土长的美国白人，仍然没
人知道谁是Judge Kagan。难以置信啊！！ |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 As Harvard Law Dean, Kagan Did Not Require Study of U.S. Constitutional Law
But Did Require Study of International and Foreign Law
Friday, May 28, 2010
By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor
Supreme Court nominee Solicitor General Elena Kagan meets and greets
senators on Thursday, May 13, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
(CNSNews.com) – Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s choice to replace
retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, is
best known for moving Harvard Law Schoo |
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发帖数: 56 | 11 Kagan作为lesbian一直是坚决维护同性恋权益的。
联邦最高法院大法官一共9位，4个偏左4个偏右。1个中间派。中间派Kennedy一直是支
持同性恋者权益
的。现在Kagan如果上任，最高法院在同性恋议题上就是5－4多数，对未来的同性恋运
动很有好处啊。
不如加州的Prop 8,如果上诉到最高法院，那么应该是同志赢得。 |
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发帖数: 145 | 12 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/opinion/03rauch.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=print
A ‘Kagan Doctrine’ on Gay Marriage
By JONATHAN RAUCH
Washington
ELENA KAGAN uttered neither the word “gay” nor “marriage” in her opening
statement at the Senate
confirmation hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court, but she
addressed the issue nonetheless.
No, she didn’t say how she will vote when gay marriage comes before the
court, as it may soon. What she
did say was this:
“The Supreme Court, of course, ha |
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发帖数: 4174 | 13 Human Rights Campaign Congratulates Elena Kagan on Her Confirmation as
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
"We commend the Senate for confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the
Supreme Court. She has demonstrated a understanding of the need for
equality for all Americans and her record indicates she may be more familiar
with how laws and policies affect the LGBT community than any previously
confirmed Justice," said HRC President Joe Solmonese
8/5/2010
WASHINGTON – The Hum |
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发帖数: 19713 | 14 Judge Kagan和Justice Kagan到底哪个对？正式的媒体上也两种写法都有。 |
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发帖数: 2113 | 15
她這就是回應Scalia前陣子在普林斯頓的言論。
他那番話惹了點麻煩，gay activists要求他回避審理gay marriage right 案子。
Scalia是最喜歡查字典的大法官，
從文本意義上，Scalia號稱是最跟著發條走到法官，
挑戰哪年的法條，他就摸出哪年的字典，看看某個詞意到底是什么意思。
可以說他精準，也可以說他守舊，
在我看來就是不識時務。
Kagan這話算不上諷刺也算不上表揚，
說的是句實話罷了，再說，她一個最junior的法官，
談及現在最資深的法官，贊美的話當然比諷刺更合適。
傳說Kagan可能是lesbian，確實很可疑。 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 Justice Kagan Recuses Herself From Case Involving Arizona Immigration Law
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
December 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona's
controversial law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for an
election-year decision on an issue that is already shaping presidential
politics.
The justices said they will review a federal appeals court ruling that
blocked several tough provisions in the Arizona law. One of those requires
th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1665 | 17 Kyl: “whether the Constitution could be properly read to include such a
right.” -----(the right to same-sex marriage.)
“I don't think that would be appropriate,” Kagan answered, invoking the
marriage case that's wending its way through the courts.
这一段看得我拍案称赏。---------这个女人不寻常。 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 18 KAGAN可不可爱，还要看她对GAY MARRIAGE的态度。 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 19 但是很多网站有叫judge kagan的阿，大概很多老美也分不清楚judge和jutise? |
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发帖数: 3372 | 21 and kagan seems to have a good personal relationship with scalia. they hang
out outside work. maybe she will influence him on gay issues, i hope.
the |
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发帖数: 10233 | 22 Beyond the political atmosphere, Ms. Kagan is credited with improving
student life through upgrades to the physical campus, such as a revamped
student center, an upgraded gym and an ice-skating rink that doubled as a
volleyball court. And she offered small things, like free coffee outside
classrooms and free tampons in the women's restrooms.
free tampons in the women's restrooms! Guess that qualifies him as a supreme
court judge.
lol...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487035658045752 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 24 Just a friendly reminder about Victoria "Nuland":
Victoria Nuland is the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor
Sherwin B. Nuland, whose original surname was ***Nudelman***. Victoria’s
paternal grandfather was Meyer Nudelman from a family of Jewish immigrants
who came to New York City from Russia.
--married to Robert Kagan, whose father established PNAC (of "New Pearl
Harbor" fame before 9/11), and related to Elena Kagan, former SCOTUS nominee
- see how the web is interwoven?
Is Elena... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6339 | 25 The Triumphant Decline of the WASP
By NOAH FELDMAN
JUNE 27, 2010
Cambridge, Mass.
FIVE years ago, the Supreme Court, like the United States, had a plurality
of white Protestants. If Elena Kagan — whose confirmation hearings begin
today — is confirmed, that number will be reduced to zero, and the court
will consist of six Catholics and three Jews.
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NOAH FELDMAN ---
Noah R. Feldman (born May 22, 1970) is an American author and the Felix
Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harva... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6339 | 26 The Triumphant Decline of the WASP
By NOAH FELDMAN
JUNE 27, 2010
Cambridge, Mass.
FIVE years ago, the Supreme Court, like the United States, had a plurality
of white Protestants. If Elena Kagan — whose confirmation hearings begin
today — is confirmed, that number will be reduced to zero, and the court
will consist of six Catholics and three Jews.
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NOAH FELDMAN ---
Noah R. Feldman (born May 22, 1970) is an American author and the Felix
Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harva... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 27 Return of the living (neo-con) dead
http://atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-030614.html
Amid much hysteria, the notion has been widely peddled in the United States
that President Obama's "new" foreign policy doctrine, announced last week at
West Point, rejects neo-cons and neo-liberals and is, essentially, post-
imperialist and a demonstration of realpolitik.
Not so fast. Although stepping back from the excesses of the Cheney regime -
as in bombing whole nations into "democracy" - the "desire to l... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 28 http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/05/07/kagan-and-dont-ask-dont-tell/
Kagan and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
By Leah Nylen | May 7, 2010 10:33 am
The New York Times takes a look at what Republicans believe might be their
best line of attack should Solicitor General Elena Kagan be nominated to the
Supreme Court — her opposition to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” policy and her support for a lawsuit that would have barred military
recruiters from Harvard’s campus.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan
In 20 |
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发帖数: 438 | 29 Elena Kagan
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
三个犹太人（俩个犹太女人） 在九人大法官中。
Elena Kagan接替九十岁的 John Roberts。
By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer
– 5 mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena
Kagan to the Supreme Court, a person familiar with the president's thinking
said Sunday night.
The move positions the court to have three female justices for the first
time in history.
The source spoke on condition of anonymity bec |
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发帖数: 19713 | 30 跑题了跑题了，这个坑不是Kagan看DADT，而是Kagan看DOMA。
Kagan对DADT的态度很明确，但是她从来没有明确对DOMA表过态，我本来以为LZ看了什
么内参了
discriminatory recruitment policy. This [policy] is a profound wrong – a
moral injustice of the first order. And it is a wrong that tears at the
fabric of our own community, because some of our members cannot, while
others can, devote their professional careers to their country.” 但是，她对
gay marriage的态度就不那么明确了。 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 31 同样的回答，反同方的理解不一样。他们认为KAGAN的回答被断章取义，从KAGAN代表
Department of Justice写的关于加州DOMA案子的memo来看，她基本上就是一个同性恋
派来的奸细，假装为DOMA辩护实际上是为以后推翻DOMA扫除障碍，National
Organization for Marriage的原文是
“Kagan waded into the DOMA case, amending a brief that offered “
responsible procreation” as a reason for DOMA to instead explicitly reject
procreation and child wellbeing as a reason for defining marriage as one man
and one woman — undermining the law she claims to be defending. We’ve
seen this tactic in state litigation before: |
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发帖数: 6973 | 32 Robert Frank, That Bright, Dying Star, the American WASP; Kagan Nomination
Marks Another Faded Day in the Establishment's Illustrious but Insular
History; a New Path to Power. Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704414504575244622954114574.html
(If she [Kagan] is confirmed, the nation's nine most powerful judges will
all be Catholic or Jewish, leaving the court without a Protestant member for
the first time.
My comment:
(1) Ms. Elena Kagan has never b |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 https://www.judicialwatch.org/corrupt-politicians-lists/washingtons-ten-most
-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2011/
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes
government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington’s “Ten
Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
Former Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Attorney General Eric Holder
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
President Ba... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26222 | 34 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: smokinggun (硝烟), 信区: Military
标 题: 奥巴马政府内的犹太高官
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Sep 26 04:18:47 2011, 美东)
http://www.ranker.com/list/jewish-politicians-within-the-obama-
Rahm Israel Emanuel 白宫幕僚长
David Axelrod 总统高级顾问
Elena Kagen 检察长
Larry Summers 财政部长（已离职）
Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician
currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama
David Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant
base... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26222 | 35 http://www.ranker.com/list/jewish-politicians-within-the-obama-
Rahm Israel Emanuel 白宫幕僚长
David Axelrod 总统高级顾问
Elena Kagen 检察长
Larry Summers 财政部长（已离职）
Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician
currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama
David Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant
based in Chicago, Illinois. He is best known as a top advisor to Barack
Obama, first in Obama's 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 85 | 36 今天mailing list收到的。两个月的deadline，已经过去10天了，怎么都没看到人讨论
这个。写得这么好的文案，不广为传播真是浪费了
小声说一句，潜水员求置顶。。。
（以下为转载）
历史性的时刻已经到来了：2/21/2012，美国最高法院决定审理用“族裔”的理由来提
高亚裔和白人高校入学门槛的做法是否违宪。您--关爱孩子未来的父母--现在就可以花
一分钟时间来帮助孩子增大孩子上他们理想大学的机会。请您立即投票赞成（FOR） 80
-20全美亚裔教育基金会的民调书，清楚明白地表明亚裔在这件案子上的立场。
http://admin.80-20nj.info/cgi/80/e?l=8/11e/f&w=no
资料显示，亚裔在美国要比其他族裔成绩优秀许多才能上同样的学校。要上同样的名校
，亚裔SAT要考1550分，白人1410分，而非裔只需要1100分*（英文和数学满分是1600）
。亚裔入学这么高的门槛使得许多亚裔的大学申请者非常害怕，有些干脆拒绝列出他们
是亚裔—其实学校一看名字还是能知道哪些孩子是亚裔。。。
下面几周内，我们需要征集到至少五万个签名，让结果写入Amicus Cu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29853 | 37 唉，这种帖子上了首页，老王就只好出柜说点啥了。
要站在反AA的角度，那就很简单，凡是Obama提名的都要反对。不管他是哪个种族。
请大家先看连接一，这个文章的作者在极力鼓动Obama提名一个亚裔做大法官，基本的
鼓动点也就是要照顾少数族裔。
那这个作者是啥人呢？ CHRISTOPHER KANG 他是韩裔，长期为Obama工作，最近的一次
新闻是这个王八蛋在代表绝大部分亚裔在支持AA，希望我邻居Fisher输掉案子。请看连
接二。
这个狗娘养的康某还做了啥？他还帮助Obama提名了两位大法官，kagan 和Sotomayor。
在我邻居Fisher一案里，Sotomayor可是拼命支持AA，kagan因为在当大法官前是AA支持
者，帮Obama制定过政策，所以在我邻居的大学升学AA一案里自动回避了。狗娘养的康
某的历史在连接三
我的亚裔兄弟们，你还会支持Obama提名的亚裔或者任何裔的大法官吗？欢迎来战。
一
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/editorial-president-o
二
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发帖数: 4055 | 38 特朗普发话，我们数数哪些奴隶主国父的雕像可以拆
来源：微信公众号“经略研究院” 作者：章永乐 时间：2017-08-20
88 0 美国 字号:A-A+
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编者按
这几天，美国陷入了“文化内战”。左翼人士要推倒内战时南方邦联罗伯特·李将军的
雕像，白人至上主义新纳粹分子要保卫雕像，双方在弗吉尼亚发生暴力冲突，新纳粹分
子开车造成对方阵营伤亡。此事一出，美国许多地方都发生了类似的冲突，一些南方邦
联的标志物被推倒，林肯纪念堂遭到涂抹。这时候，一向耿直的特朗普站出来批判“历
史虚无主义”，说了一句很关键的话：如果你们只是看到南方军的他们曾经支持畜奴就
要毁掉他们的雕像，那么美国国父乔治·华盛顿和托马斯·杰斐逊也都曾蓄奴，是不是
他们的雕像也要拆啊？话音刚落，芝加哥就有黑人神父回答：是的，也要拆。
美国的建国是一个复杂事件，从光明面看，有宣布人人平等的《独立宣言》，有一系列
新制度的探索；从阴暗面看，美国国父们很多是奴隶主——《独立宣言》的起草者杰斐
逊就是个大奴隶主，《独立宣言》的签署者中70%是奴隶主，制宪会议代表中49%是奴隶
主。下面就以制... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 40 http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/10/scotus.kagan/?iref=polticker
'Her heart beats on the left'
Named Harvard's dean in 2003, Kagan earned a reputation for soothing
longstanding tensions over a perceived liberal tilt to the faculty and
curriculum.
She began pushing for the appointment of conservative professors, including
Jack Goldsmith, a onetime lawyer in President George W. Bush's Justice
Department. Goldsmith was noted for privately expressing concern over the so
-called Bybee Memo, or tor |
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发帖数: 4174 | 41 Kagan不是lesbian, 有点令人失望，但是这不重要，重要的是她对gay marriage的态度
。本来联邦大法院里是四个保守派四个自由派加一个中间派，退休的John Paul
Stevens是自由派的旗帜，如果换上的一个是反同的，我们就基本上可以回家歇菜了。
KAGAN在哈佛法学院做DEAN的时候对DADT的看法很明确：“I abhor the military’s discriminatory recruitment policy. This [policy] is a profound wrong – a moral injustice of the first order. And it is a wrong that tears at the fabric of our own community, because some of our members cannot, while others can, devote their professional careers to their country.” 但是，她对gay marriage的态度就不那么明确了。Ka |
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发帖数: 4174 | 42 关于新提名大法官ELENA KAGAN：
KAGAN 曾说过“There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage
.” 有人理解为这就是她对宪法的解释，也有人说她只是在陈述现存法律，与她将来
怎么判无关。Ted Olson和David Boies同意后者,认为大法院的EQUATION没有变，我们
还是能争取到5：4的判决。 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 43 Posted on Advocate.com November 12, 2010
Supreme Court Denies Log Cabin Request
By Kerry Eleveld
The U.S. Supreme Court voted on Friday to keep to the "don't ask, don't tell
" policy intact, rejecting a request by the Log Cabin Republicans that the
court reinstate an injunction of the policy pending appeal. The court order
was short and to the point, noting that Justice Anthony Kennedy referred the
appeal to the full Supreme Court and further advising that Justice Elena
Kagan had not taken part ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 145 | 44 百分比都是很简单的估算，法院判决从来都很难量化，我们哪里能算得出来大法官们心
里咋想的。9个大法官里面，我有信心Breyer和Ginsberg是支持同性婚姻的，而Scalia
和Thomas是肯定反对法院介入这个争论的。Roberts, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan从来没
在同性婚姻上表过态，但通常都认为Roberts和Alito会反对，而Sotomayor和Kagan会支
持。关键的态度是Kennedy。
Kennedy通常被认为是保守派的大法官，但更准确地说，他的jurisprudence接近于
libertarian。Libertarian强调个体自由，反对政府对于个体自由的限制。所以，
Kennedy在堕胎问题上通常是支持母亲的堕胎权利，在言论自由上通常支持个人和团体
的言论自由不受政府控制。更重要的是，历史上最高院的关于同志权利的两个决定：
Romer v. Evans（裁决一项歧视同性恋的全民公投违宪）和Lawrence v. Texas(裁决肛
交合法）的主笔法官正是Kennedy。
从个人性格上分析，Kennedy常被形容为pompous，他是一个希望... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 45 Justice Ginsburg Says She Won’t Retire Before 2012; Hints She May Stay
Until 2016
CNSNews ^ | February 4, 2011 | Nicholas Ballasy
Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 11:06:02 AM by jazusamo
(CNSNews.com) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said on
Thursday evening that she will not retire from the court before 2012 and
hinted that she might serve until she's at least 83 years old in 2016.
VIDEO 1:57 minutes
Ginsburg was interviewed by NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg
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发帖数: 4174 | 46 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/01/how-will-do
How will Doma fare in front of the US supreme court?
Despite the Roberts court's conservative lean, there is reason to hope it
will rule the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
On 31 May, a three-judge panel of the first circuit court of appeals held a
key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) unconstitutional. It is
nearly certain, however, that the case will be headed to the supreme court,
and because the decision ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 High Court Rules for Monsanto in Seed Patent Case
By BRENT KENDALL And JESS BRAVIN
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Monsanto Co. MON -1.19%
can use its patents to prevent farmers from planting later generations of
genetically engineered seeds without paying for them.
Monsanto's Roundup Ready seeds render crops resistant to weed killer and are
planted on much of the nation's farm acreage. But unlike many inventions,
Monsanto's patented biotechnology is self-replicating, prompti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 The words came out of my mouth before I could stop them. “I feel sorry for
Obama,” I said. As my wife looked at me in disbelief, I quickly added a
correction. “Well, almost.”
Beset by failures at home and abroad, the president cuts a lonely and sad
figure these days. His aura of grief reflects his profound loss.
His worldview crashed headlong into reality, and reality won. Obamaism is
dead, may it rest in peace.
That’s sad for him, but hold the tears — his loss is mankind’s hope. If
Obama wakes ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 883 | 50 美国最高法院SCOTUS，我称为美国政治局常委，最近才发现，比总统国会重要多了。像
版上关心的AA等问题完全是只有SCOTUS才能解决的问题，跟谁当总统谁管参院基本毛关
系都没有。SCOTUS是总统推选，国会批准，历史上有因为ideology问题被国会拒绝的很
多例子，最近的有里根硬推保守派被民主党国会拒绝，这样才有了著名的swing vote
Kennedy.
美国政治局这些年的两极分化，跟当时被提名时的国会状态有很大关系。因为SCOTUS提
名基本不能filibuster（太重要导致filibuster很难有效），所以基本上只要控制国会
就可以推自己想推的人。目前Liberal的4位法官全都是在民主党同时控制总统和参院时
当选，而保守派的4位法官有3位是这样。只有两位法官在共和党总统/民主党参院时当
选，其中就有一位重要的中间派Kennedy。
我认为对华人有利的是更多的反对AA的中间派，我们不应该支持极左，也不应该支持极
右。右派把持下的SCOTUS判决的各种如Citizen United之类的法律也不是很好，反应富
翁的利益而不是一般人的利益。而且如果右派太多了，可能会over... 阅读全帖 |
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