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It was two years ago today that President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice. Among the Republicans who voted for Kagan’s appointment was Senator Richard Lugar.
“The most important and alarming facet of Lugar’s defeat,” writes Jonathan Chait, is that one of Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s key arguments against Sen. Richard Lugar was that Lugar had voted to confirm Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. This is a step towards breaking one of the last, and perhaps most important, social norms of the Senate: That “in the absence ...
Jonathan Chait : "The most important and alarming facet of Lugar's defeat , and a factor whose importance is being overlooked at the moment, is one of the things Mourdock cited against him: Lugar voted to confirm two of Obama's Supreme Court nominees. Obviously, Lugar would not have chosen to nominate an Elena Kagan or a Sonia Sotomayor. But he was following a longstanding practice of extending ...
Elizabeth Warren noted that Sen. Scott Brown had questioned the qualifications of then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan before voting against her confirmation as a Supreme Court justice.
