Legal Commentary

Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009

By Big Tent Democrat

Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, the Lion of the Senate, will be laid to rest today in Arlington National Cemetery, near the resting places of his brothers, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Robert Francis Kennedy.

The funeral mass, in Boston (Roxbury actually), at the Basilica of Our Lady Of Perpetual Help, and the burial, some hours after the funeral mass, will be broadcast. All the living ex-Presidents will be attending (correction, due to health issues, President George Herbert Walker Bush was unable to attend.)

President Barack Obama will be delivering the eulogy. susang has the prepared text.

If you are not near a television, you can watch on cnn.com or I am sure other internet outlets.

This is an Open Thread to discuss these events.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 29, 2009 (boomark / email).