{"id":188736,"date":"2010-08-05T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/05\/kagan-approved-by-senate\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:42:00","slug":"kagan-approved-by-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/05\/kagan-approved-by-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagan Approved By Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Barack Obama gets his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/law\/2010\/aug\/05\/elena-kagan-us-supreme-court\">2<sup>nd<\/sup> Supreme Court Justice through the Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that she&#8217;ll be depressingly conservative, but I&#8217;m a fan of Kagan&#8217;s old mentor, Thurgood Marshall as a good place to put the ideological center of the court. <\/p>\n<p>I hope that her lack of judicial record will mean that she is a pleasant surprise, but I would take 2:1 odds against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Barack Obama gets his 2nd Supreme Court Justice through the Senate. I think that she&#8217;ll be depressingly conservative, but I&#8217;m a fan of Kagan&#8217;s old mentor, Thurgood Marshall as a good place to put the ideological center of the court. I hope that her lack of judicial record will mean that she is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,998,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-congress","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}