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Kagan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Abner Mikva before serving as a domestic policy adviser under President Clinton...
...lost the first 26 games of its existence. If history is any indicator, neither team will win: the Rays and the Phillies will be swept from the field in a freak hurricane, and Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz will have a home-run derby to decide the title, as Abner Doubleday no doubt would have intended...
...cultivate those in power without being defined by them. And he learned how to be different things to different people: a reformer groomed by an old-fashioned machine boss, an African American heavily financed by white liberals, a Harvard lawyer whose bootstrapping life story gained traction with white ethnics. Abner Mikva, a former federal judge and Congressman from Chicago, credits Obama with figuring out "how to appeal to different constituencies without being inconsistent...
...discretion. The one thing that the Chief Justice said in his confirmation hearings that I completely disagree with is that Supreme Court Justices are like umpires; they just call balls and strikes. No. They make the rules. They are the commissioners of baseball. In fact, they are more like Abner Doubleday than an umpire. Deciding whether race can be used in college admissions, deciding whether states can ban abortion: those are not purely legal judgments. Those are political judgments, and the views of the Justices matter more than the Court precedents on questions like that...
After graduating in 1986, Kagan clerked for two renowned liberal jurists: Abner J. Mikva, an appeals court judge, and Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court...