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Since when is Elena Kagan another Thurgood Marshall?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Although President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, that hardly makes her another Thurgood Marshall. For instance, as the New York Times reports: "In analyzing why Justice Marshall was adamant about siding with the poor family in the busing fee case, for example, Ms. Kagan explained in her tribute that he 'allowed his personal experiences, and the knowledge of suffering and deprivation gained from those experiences, to guide him.'" In nominating Kagan to the Supreme Court, President Obama said that Thurgood Marshall's "understanding of law, not as an intellectual exercise or words on a page, but as it affects the lives of ordinary people, has animated every step of Elena?s career -- including her service as Solicitor General today...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).