recruiterings. at the time she denied the federal recruiters permission to come on the harvard law school it was unconstitutional. the appeals court of philadelphia declared it unconstitutional. it wasn t the law of the land until the supreme court reversed it. with the previous associated justice from the state of new york and new york city. sonya sotomayor, there was the wide latino line. nothing like that emerged on this candidate, right? no. as you know, i ve spent a lot of time reading as much about her background as i can. i haven t seen anything. for sure somebody will find something to hang their hat on. she is what the president said he would appoint a person who thinks like she does. in terms of the outcome, there will be very little. you re replacing a 90-year-old liberal republican with a
characterizes herring a a center left? they said they don t want to get into labeling. they think she s qualified. if you look at the audience, it was the folks within the liberal, progressive, left leaning side of the judicial analysis and support groups in washington. she worked for president clinton and president obama, both who consider themself center left of the political spectrum and the president, having interviewed kagan, he s comfortable with her perspective on legal matters and is not naive on constitutional efforts. they don t want to characterize her at center left but that s where she falls. who is she? she has a solid legal ground and these the united states solicitor general which means the united states government
every americans. president obama nominated his choice for the supreme court justice, a short paper trail but republicans are promising a battle over her confirmation. her name a elena kagan, she works in the justice department as solicitor general. basically the lawyer for the people. she was given the gig after winning senate confirmation last year. more on her legal background in a bit. the president nominated her to replace john paul stevens who plans to retire this summer. and in a ceremony this morning, the president praised kagan, who he called one of the nation s foremost legal minds. an acclaimed legal scholar, a former white house aide with a commitment to public service and a grasp of the nexus and boundaries between our three branches of government. trail-blazer leader, the first woman to serve as dean of
afghanistan. shepard: should we expect an effort during this high profile visit to turn the page on recent tensions in u.s.-afghan relation? if so, how do we do that with all the corruption in that government? there will be a effort to do that. there s a dinner at the blair house with the secretary of state. tomorrow a lot of events at the state department. wednesday, karzai will be at the white house for a good part of the day. compare that with israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu here after a tense time. he didn t even get a photograph with the president so a lot of people will watch this, wondering the difference when they re both close allies, but you ll see a effort by the administration to throw their arm around hamid karzai and prop him up. look at the pretty pictures, we re great. but the stakes are very high and there s pressure on karzai to produce results. history tells us don t hold your
unless there s a glaring defect or a flub which could happen but hasn t in the past. people should be honest, every president, especially when the president is a lawyer, wants to appoint people who basically agree with him so as to agree with whatever legislation makes its way to the bench. so as to extend his legacy beyond his years in the white house. bowepresident bush did this and president obama is doing with judge sotomayor and elena kagan, there s no mystery or magic. the politics are you vote for the president because he and he appoints somebody who agrees with him. he found that in elena kagan. her credentials are impeccable. she should be s to confirm because there aren t 2 or 300 opinions she wrote like judge sotomayor that people can pick apart. they don t exist. there are editorials she wrote