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May 10, 2010

Easy Confirmation for Kagan?

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones


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I consider this basically good news for Kagan. I assume this is a decent summary of all the available conservative oppo research on Kagan, and there's nothing new here. Hell, most of it has already been hashed out by the left, let alone the right. So this suggests that conservatives don't have anything more than this, and all they can hope for is that they get their hands on something juicy when Obama turns over Kagan's Clinton-era records. Which, frankly, seems unlikely given Kagan's obviously cautious nature even in private. The odds are pretty long that anything seriously embarrassing is lurking there.

If it turns out that Whelan's list is all they have, I doubt that conservative objections will gain even a little bit of traction. It's a nothingburger....

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