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Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Mitch McConnell

Kagan fight will distract Senate for months

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., leads a Senate field hearing, in Philadelphia, Monday, March 29, 2010. Experts invited to speak debated whether secret video recordings should fall under the federal wiretap statute. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP)

Jesse J. Holland

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The Kagan guessing game begins

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Solicitor General Elena Kagan speaks during the annual meeting of the 7th Circuit Bar Association & Judicial Conference of the 7th Circuit Monday, May 3, 2010 in Chicago. Kagan is under consideration to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. (AP Photo/David Banks) (AP)

Obama's court pick coming soon

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2010 file photo, U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan speaks during a panel about Women Advocates of the Supreme Court Bar at the Newseum in Washington. Liberals fear that after helping elect President Barack Obama he'll abandon them when he nominates a Supreme Court justice, choosing a consensus-building moderate rather than a liberal in the mold of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) (AP)

Guy-Uriel Charles, Anupam Chander, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Solicitor General Elena Kagan speaks during the annual meeting of the 7th Circuit Bar Association & Judicial Conference of the 7th Circuit Monday, May 3, 2010 in Chicago. Kagan is under consideration to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. (AP Photo/David Banks)

White House circulating pro-Kagan talking points

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Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood

Obama meets with Wood, but it might mean nothing

John Paul Stevens

Stevens always approached cases the same way

President Barack Obama talks about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Thursday, April 29, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Obama's attack on the court

Glenn Greenwald

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This undated photo taken by Henry and Wanda Sandoz and made available Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, by the Liberty Legal Institute shows the memorial known as the "Mojave Cross", on an outcrop known as Sunrise Rock in the Mojave National Preserve, in Calif. The Supreme Court has said a federal court went too far in ordering the removal of a congressionally endorsed war memorial cross from its longtime home in California. (AP Photo/Liberty Legal Institute, Henry and Wanda Sandoz) NO SALES (AP)

This April 14, 2010 photo shows Arizona Governor Jan Brewer at the Capitol in Phoenix. Brewer has called for more troops along the state's border with Mexico on Thursday, April 23, 2010, two days before a deadline for her to approve or strike down the nation's toughest legislation on illegal immigration.

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Glenn Greenwald

Filibuster: What does it really mean?

Jonathan Bernstein

Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens poses for photos during a group portrait session with the members of the U.S. Supreme Court, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Friday, Dec. 05, 2003. President Ford nominated Stevens to the Supreme Court, taking his seat Dec. 19, 1975. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)

Mary Ann Sorrentino

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WASHINGTON - MAY 20: U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan addresses the forum "Striking the Balance: Fair and Independent Courts in a New Era" at Georgetown University Law Center May 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. A former Dean of the Harvard Law School, Kagan's name has been included on many peoples' short list of possible candidates to the Supreme Court to replace Justice David Souter, who is retiring this year. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Chip Somodevilla)

On the court, not a lot of respect for Elena Kagan

The GOP plays coy on Supreme Court -- for now

In this Sept. 29, 2009 file photo, the Supreme Court poses for a portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington. Seated, from left are: Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Standing, from left are: Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak. FILE )

Jonathan Bernstein

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