The battle over Obama administration Supreme Court nominee is on the verge of shifting into a new gear…and revving up a bit: the AP reports that The William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark., will today release some 80,000 pages of e-mails — about 11,000 of them written by Kagan. It’s the final batch of documents being released that relate to when she served former President Bill Clinton as a domestic policy aide and White House counsel to former President Bill Clinton.
Partisans on both sides of the Kagan nomination will be scrutinizing them looking for attack – and defense — lines.
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.