SAN FRANCISCO - The judge who struck down California's gay marriage ban never considered his own homosexuality as a reason to recuse himself from the case, he said on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama's second US Supreme Court pick, Elena Kagan, won Senate confirmation Thursday as just the fourth woman to reach the high bench, giving Democrats a welcome election-year boost.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's second US Supreme Court pick, Elena Kagan, cruised to all-but-certain confirmation Thursday in a final Senate vote making her just the fourth woman to reach the high bench.
Supporters and opponents of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan are getting their final say on the Senate floor, although she seems a safe bet for confirmation.
President Barack Obama Monday picked Elena Kagan, a "trailblazing" legal scholar, to sit on the US Supreme Court, seeking to lock in decades of liberal consensus building on the conservative-dominated bench.
