What you have to look forward to in the fall, America:
"Kagan heads to high court; Ex-Harvard dean will be fourth woman to serve; Senate confirmation vote is 63-37; Brown opposed" by Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff | August 6, 2010
WASHINGTON — As an associate justice, former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan will soon face a number of issues that will test her views on the broad legal themes of federal power and state rights, said constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School.
Those issues, Turley said, are already working through lower courts. They include a possible final appeal in a challenge to a California ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage; legal challenges to portions of the national health care law, including the requirement that everyone have health insurance; and an Arizona law aimed at illegal immigration.
“Elena Kagan is in a position to hit the ground running in terms of developing her judicial philosophy,’’ Turley said.
Issues scheduled to come before the court in the fall term include prison overcrowding, the rights of defendants to have DNA tests to establish innocence, a law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors, and a free speech case involving members of a small Kansas church who travel the nation to hold antigay protests at the funerals of slain American troops....
Yeah, she won't be rocking the boat on torture or tyranny.
Also see: Obama Thumbs His Nose at the American People (no pun intended).
