Thread: Elena Kagan Will Be Obama's Supreme Court Pick.

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From early on my suspicion was that the nominee would be Diane Wood. Posititions and demeanor came across as Obama's ideal fit to replace Stephens. Appears that betting favorite is Kagan, but here is an interesting article that is predicting differently.


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But we’re going to go out on a limb and make a crazy prediction: President Obama is going to nominate Judge Diane Wood, of the Seventh Circuit, to the Supreme Court. He’ll announce the nomination on Monday, May 10 — the Monday after Mother’s Day. (That’s significant, for reasons we’ll get to later.)"

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SCOTUS Speculation: Could It Be Wood?Ten reasons Obama might appoint Diane Wood.


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Kagan would get filibustered right out of the box. I smell bait and switch.

Originally Posted by katiegrrl0

Kagan has been labeled gay in the press. This could make it tough to get her confirmed. Not that it makes a damn bit of difference.

After what you people did to Thomas and Bork, I feel justified in any tactic we use.

Originally Posted by katiegrrl0

Thomas got in. I can't say anything good about Bork so I refrain from comment.

Bork was certainly demonized. (may have been a bad guy, but never saw the evidence) Seemed more like a political power play that hinged off of Kennedy's opening tirade.

But it was a morbidly interesting chapter in American history.


"Within 45 minutes of Bork's nomination to the Court, Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork in a nationally televised speech, declaring:

Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy... President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.[10][11]

Bork complained, "There was not a line in that speech that was accurate."[12] In its obituary of Kennedy, The Economist remarked that Bork was correct about the inaccuracy of Kennedy's speech, "But it worked."[12] A brief was prepared for Joe Biden, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the Biden Report. Bork contended in his best-selling[13] book, The Tempting of America, that the report "so thoroughly misrepresented a plain record that it easily qualifies as world class in the category of scurrility."[14]


Robert Bork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




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Originally Posted by JoJoGunne

I tend to agree with you. It wouldn't surprise me if President Obama announces Wood on Monday.

It could be a tactic to attempt to throw the Republicans off balance...maybe make them tip their hand. I'll have a more solid opinion after the Sunday shows tomorrow.

What I mean is that he will nominate Kagan and she will get filibustered. Then, as a maneuvering tactic, Kagan withdraws and he nominates Wood so they can't filibuster Wood.
Kinda like GW did with the Harriet Meyers / John Roberts nomination.