Kagan celebrates with Obama, to be sworn Saturday

[babylonsister]

Kagan celebrates with Obama, to be sworn Saturday

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON (AP) -- A beaming Elena Kagan and President Barack Obama on Friday celebrated her imminent ascension to the Supreme Court with jokes and references to the irreverent sense of humor she put on display during her Senate confirmation hearing.

An audience in the East Room of the White House, filled with Kagan's friends and extended family, along with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy, screamed with joy and applauded as Obama introduced "Justice Elena Kagan."

Kagan, 50, holds the title of U.S. solicitor general for one more day.

"While she may be feeling a twinge of sadness about giving up the title of general - a cool title - I think we can agree that Justice Elena Kagan has a pretty nice ring to it," Obama said of his second successful appointment to the court.

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[onehandle]

1. And we will all be gay married and living under Sharia Law by Sunday morning.

Meet your future, Freeps!

[lillypaddle]

6. Ain't that the truth!

:rofl:

[elleng]

2. 'Obama said

senators got a "pretty good look" during the confirmation process at Kagan, who met individually with more than 80 senators and testified for a total of 17 hours.

"They got a good sense of her judicial philosophy, her commitment to the rule of law, her rich understanding of our Constitution and, of course, where she can be found on Christmas Day," Obama said, alluding to one of her jokes.'

[babylonsister]

3. A Chinese restaurant?! nt

[elleng]

4. Did you miss this, b'sis???

'Kagan showed glimpses of her dry sense of humor during the hearings last month, disarming Republicans and Democrats alike with clever comebacks that lightened the often tense proceedings.

When Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina stumped her by asking where she was on Christmas - part of a series of questions on the Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner that day - Kagan recovered quickly.

"You know, like all Jews," she quipped, "I was probably at a Chinese restaurant."'

[babylonsister]

5. No! I got the right answer...

I had read that. I didn't know Jewish people went to Chinese restaurants on X-mas. :shrug: Sounds like it beats cooking!