The fur — and partisanship and ideological liberal/conservative — has already start to fly in Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Here are a few roundups, fact-based linkfests to read and videos to watch so you can make up your mind if you’re not one of those Americans already swinging a party or ideological axe:
.–Slate: Why the inscrutable Elena Kagan makes everyone nervous
—The Week: Who Is Elena Kagan?
—The Week Opinion Brief: Was Elena Kagan the Right Choice?
—The Wall Street Journal Blog: The Kagan Pick: The Morning Roundup
VIDEOS:
KPRI Breaking News video on announcement:
Another video that shows the announcement in full:
CBS’s Katie Couric and CBS Chief Legal correspondent Jan Crawford — who was her student at law school — analyze the announcement:
On ABC The Politico’s Mike Allen talks to Diane Sawyer about it:
Her thoughts last year on cameras in the Supreme Court:
Lindsay Graham questioning her when she was up for Solicitor General confirmation:
Two years ago accepting the award by Equal Justice Works:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.