Obama should nominate Pamela Karlan to the Supreme Court

Pamela S. Karlan, Professor of law at Stanford Law School
51 Years old.

Experience

Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Professor of law, University of Virginia School of Law.

Founding Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Commissioner, California Fair Political Practices Commission

Law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court

Law clerk, Judge Abraham D. Sofaer, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Author, on Constitutional law and related subjects, well published including a recent book with Goodwin Liu detailing "a progressive vision of constitutional interpretation."

Obama should send her up on a recess appointment and let the Senate take it's time confirming her for life.

Kick this thread if you agree and just go ahead and argue with me!

Everyone in the legal world knows he should.

But, he won't.

Prior to her confirmation, Elena Kagan was the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law and the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. During her nearly six-year tenure as Dean, Harvard Law School expanded and enhanced its faculty, modernized its curriculum, developed new campus facilities, promoted public service, and improved the student experience.

A leading scholar of administrative law, Kagan came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. While on the faculty, Kagan taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003.

From 1995 to 1999, Kagan served in the White House, first as Associate Counsel to the President (1995-96) and then as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (1997-99). In those positions she played a key role in the executive branch’s formulation, advocacy, and implementation of law and policy in areas ranging from education to crime to public health.

Kagan launched her academic career at the University of Chicago Law School, where she became an assistant professor in 1991 and a tenured professor of law in 1995. In 1993, Kagan received the graduating students’ award for teaching excellence.

Kagan clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1986 to 1987. The next year, she clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. She worked as an associate in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly from 1989 to 1991.

Kagan received her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton in 1981. She attended Worcester College, Oxford, as Princeton’s Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow, and received an M. Phil. in 1983. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude in 1986.

we need a strong intellectual response to Scalia. I am not saying that Kagan is a lightweight but Karlan could fill that role well.

Why pretend that your choice is the superior choice and any other choice just couldn't possibly measure up. As long as he doesn't choose a fire breathing knuckle dragger, we're fine. The right side of the court is not going to change and Obama isn't going to appoint one of them. Remember, the ACLU agrees with the corporate personhood decision that was just made. Somebody on the left is wrong, either the ACLU or the liberal justices.

Scalia, Inc to make a majority. Breyer has even done it a few times.

http://politifi.com/news/Federal-Courts-Blog-Recap-of-Todays-Decision-in-Shady-Grove-v-Allstate-375914.html

You can't just make a declaration based on liberal, moderate and Scalia and apply it to whoever is nomimated. A good justice should make a decision based on law, even if they wind up agreeing with Scalia. If they can't do that, they don't belong on the court at all.

:evilgrin:

FIRST, there's no vacancy to fill

SECOND, there's no evidence that a recess appointment is needed

if Karlan is appointed the Republicans will not do everything they can to delay and block her?

And whether the Republicans try to block her or not, there's no point in pushing a Recess Appointment until you know its necessary.

If Obama recess appointed a Supreme Court justice, all hell would break loose. And he never would.

But the resume sounds great. I'm partial to the lady in my profile picture, but Karlan would be a credit to the Court.