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Senate confirms Kagan as 112th justice - Yahoo! News

The vote was 63-37 for President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens.

Just one Democrat — centrist Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska — crossed party lines to oppose Kagan.

A handful of mostly moderate Republicans broke with their party to back her: Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, South Carolina's Sen. Lindsey Graham, retiring Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, and Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar.

Nikolai

Meh...yet another in a long line of justices that couldn't care less about the Constitution.

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Patters

I think she'll be a good justice in the tradition of those justices who look at the Constitution as something that must be interpreted in light of current realities. To say she couldn't care less about our Constitution tells me that you are ignoring fundamental issues about how our nation evolved. There have always been justices who interpreted our Constitution in light of current realities and in fact they have not always been liberal.

efin98

They haven't cared for years...more of maintaining the status quo than making strides to uphold the ideals.

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KontradictioN

Congratulations go out to Shrek. You've come a long way from the Western London swamp.

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DarrylS

The righties got their depends in a bunch this AM in the blogosphere.. the sky is falling.

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Patsfanin Philly

Nah, she can't be left than the Justice she's replacing (Stevens). It's just replacing one with another with no ideological shift. Had this happened now and President Obama replaced one of the conservative justices ( Alito,Scalia, Thomas, Roberts) with someone of Kagan's ideological persuasion, then there would be an uproar. As it would have, had it happened two years ago and if President Bush had nominated someone to replace Justice Stevens....

khayos

As much as I hate this pick and hate the way she has treated the military and our justice system, elections have consequences.

DarrylS

Another hyperbolic statement, that has no real meaning except in the blogosphere.. she did not mistreat the military.. and did not mistreat our justice system.

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khayos

Kicking out the military recruiters at Harvard was not mistreatment? I saw the testimony against her. And by rewording key evidence for policy? I think you're just letting this go because she's on "your side."