Teen sentencing still a national embarrassment
OPINION - The latest Supreme Court ruling banning life terms for juveniles who aren't guilty of murder is not nearly enough...
NAACP backs Supreme Court nominee Kagan
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's oldest and largest civil rights group voted unanimously at a board meeting in Florida to endorse Kagan, in line to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens...
Supreme Court rules out life sentences for juveniles
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up in prison for life without chance of parole if they have not killed anyone...
Why not a black female Supreme Court justice?
From Ebony Magazine - When the short list of qualified Supreme Court candidates was being vetted, no one asked why there was no mention of black women...
Kagan's record on race has White House on edge
OPINION - If Kagan didn't have the courage to stand up against injustice at Harvard Law School, what makes us think she will on the Supreme Court?...
What does Obama see in Elena Kagan?
Obama won't be mucking up the courts with liberal fire-breathers any time soon...
Kagan 'barely' used to limelight on Day 2 at Hill
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is back on Capitol Hill to meet with senators who are key to her confirmation.
The real battle for Supreme Court diversity is in the trenches
OPINION - There are some encouraging signs from President Obama's efforts to appoint more minorities and women to the federal bench...
Senators to query Kagan, but don't expect answers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan got a pledge from a key Democrat to help smooth her path to confirmation, while the top Senate Republican said she must prove she wouldn't be a rubber stamp for the White House.
Why Elena Kagan is no Thurgood Marshall
OPINION - Clearly she is no bold visionary. Like the president who nominated her, she's a technocrat who appears to find more pleasure in analysis of process rather than results...
