Hatch Opposes Kagan: In an OpEd published at National Review Online, Senate Judiciary Committee member Orrin Hatch explains his previously announced decision not to support Obama Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the United States Supreme Court. "Elena Kagan's record shows that her primarily academic and political experience and her activist judicial philosophy make her inappropriate for serving on the Supreme Court," wrote Senator Hatch. To support his position Hatch cites Kagan's characterization of Justice Thurgood Marshall's view that the Constitution should be interpreted to safeguard the interests of people who had no other champion as a "thing of glory," and that, as Dean of Harvard Law School, she praised activist Israeli Justice Aharon Barak as the judge who best represents the rule of law. The piece also reviews other positions Kagan took while serving at Harvard and with the Clinton administration.
Felons for Franken: A story by Fred Barnes of Fox News reports on a study which has concluded that comedian turned Senator Al Franken's 2008 election margin of 312 votes may have been cast illegally by convicted felons. While Franken's election has been certified and is final, the new information showing that it may have been fraudulent drew no response from the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, the state's largest. But Phil Carruthers a lawyer with the Ramsey County Attorney's Office said the information is being taken "very seriously" and that the Minnesota Majority, which conducted the study, "had done a good job in their review." "What we did this time is irrefutable," said the group's Executive Director. "We took the voting lists and matched them with conviction lists and then went back to the records and found the roster lists where voters sign in before walking to the voting booth, and matched them by hand. The only way we can be wrong is if someone with the same first, middle and last names, the same year of birth as the felon, and living in the same community, has voted. And that isn't very likely."
Felons for Franken: A story by Fred Barnes of Fox News reports on a study which has concluded that comedian turned Senator Al Franken's 2008 election margin of 312 votes may have been cast illegally by convicted felons. While Franken's election has been certified and is final, the new information showing that it may have been fraudulent drew no response from the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, the state's largest. But Phil Carruthers a lawyer with the Ramsey County Attorney's Office said the information is being taken "very seriously" and that the Minnesota Majority, which conducted the study, "had done a good job in their review." "What we did this time is irrefutable," said the group's Executive Director. "We took the voting lists and matched them with conviction lists and then went back to the records and found the roster lists where voters sign in before walking to the voting booth, and matched them by hand. The only way we can be wrong is if someone with the same first, middle and last names, the same year of birth as the felon, and living in the same community, has voted. And that isn't very likely."
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