Elena Kagan joins the SCOTUS

Elena Kagan was confirmed yesterday by the US Senate in a partisan vote of 63 to 37.

She replaces Justice John Paul Stevens, the retiring leader of the court’s liberal bloc.

Hopefully she’ll be a strong voice for the people that live in rather than the corporations that run this country.

She is President Barack Obama’s second SCOTUS appointment in a year after Justice Sonia Sotomayor replaced Justice David Souter almost exactly a year ago.

The liberal bloc is now dominated by women, since Kagan joins Justices Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.

This is a good appointment in light of the upcoming big fight over gay marriage.

Hopefully Justice Anthony Kennedy will once again be on our side, like he has in the past, but I would feel that much better if one of the unnamed 4 bigoted boneheads on the conservative bloc suffered cardiac arrest or massive heart failure…

More here.