Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS

eldavojohn writes "As expected, by a vote of 63 to 37 Elena Kagan has been appointed as the 112th member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Kagan, only 50 years old, has no judicial experience. The Washington Post explains: 'Other justices have corporate law backgrounds or a long record of arguing before the court. Kagan worked briefly for a law firm and argued her first case before an appellate court 11 months ago. It happened to be before the Supreme Court, the first of six cases she argued as the nation's first female solicitor general.' Her fair use views and free speech views have made her a focus of Slashdot recently."

Re:Does it matter?

[dr.newton]

You realize that the Supreme Court of the United States doesn't really have anything to do with voting right?

Or voting left, for that matter.

I read

[kikito]

SCROTUS.

Sorry.

Re:Does it matter?

[Wyatt Earp]

No, I'm ignoring a one time aberration. Supreme Court deciding on the Presidential Election or months of chaos without a president, I think they did the right thing.

Re:Can we just call it the Supreme Court?

[Schadrach]

Maybe that's the cause of all the confusion -- politicians use a similar acronym for the Constitution of the United States -- COTUS -- and misread it as "COITUS" and think that they're *SUPPOSED* to be fucking it!

Re:eh

[Shakrai]

Dubya actually did pretty well by the Texas Rangers

I always thought Dubya missed his true calling. He should have been the Commissioner of MLB instead of a politician. Hey, he couldn't do worse than Selig......

Re:eh

[Anonymous Coward]

That's a nice thought experiment you have there. Why didn't the Republicans stand up for the first amendment?

Also, why didn't they stand up for it during the Bush years?

We need a process like that for /.

[blair1q]

Seriously. This story is way off-topic and it's showing up here almost 24 hours after the fact.

Slashdot's article-selection system has been getting more and more stupid as time goes on.

We need a little constitutional reform.

But...

[rgviza]

She has almost no court experience, but she _did_ stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Re:eh

[blair1q]

Didn't realize those were requirements.

Because the previous guy came without a functioning brain.

Re:eh

[blair1q]

Dubya didn't win the election. Karl Rove did. Why anyone looks at the gibbering dry-drunk and thinks he was in charge of anything is a mystery.

Re:Two words: Sammy Sosa

[conspirator57]

Point is, you can't say GWB was an idiot just because he traded Sammy Sosa.

Maybe not, but there is a preponderance of other evidence supporting that claim.

Re:Two words: Sammy Sosa

[Kreigaffe]

And was that before or after Sosa started using steroids?

Re:eh

[tsm_sf]

I suppose it is the same way that people perceive that the party that ended slavery in this country, championed passing a Civil Rights Act, and in other ways worked to eliminate racism in this country is more racist than the party that fought to extend slavery, founded the KKK, resegregated the Federal Government, passed Jim Crow laws and in many other ways worked to maintain blacks as second class citizens.

How long are you going to ride those hundred year old coattails?

Re:eh

[bpgslashdotaccount]

So you agree that Obama has no experience.