Will They Confirm Thurgood Marshall?
(NPR) —No fireworks, no gotcha moments, in the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings (thus far), so we might as well focus on something else. Say, how about Thurgood Marshall! Kagan once clerked for Marshall, a former solicitor general who became the court’s first African-American justice in 1967, and somehow Marshall — who left the court in 1991 and died less than two years later — has become all the rage. At least, all the Republican rage on Day One of the hearings.
