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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan s paper trail is about to get a lot longer.The William J. Clinton Presidential Library is scheduled Friday afternoon to release the first batch of a 160,000-page trove of records from Kagan s service in the former president s White House. The National Archives announced it would post 46,500 pages on the library s website.Kagan, who is President Barack Obama s choice to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, served first as a counsel and then as a domestic policy adviser to Clinton between 1995 and 1999. During that time, the White H stanley cup ouse was juggling a host of hot-button issues that could become flash points in Kagan s confirmation hearings, from gun control and abortion rights to a landmark anti-smoking measure that ultimately died in the GOP-led Congress.Kagan, 50, stepped aside last mont stanley mug h from her post as Obama s solicitor general to stanley thermos focus on winning confirmation. Republican senators and conservative activists have complained that Kagan s views and judicial style remain a mystery because the public record from her professional past is so thin. The former Harvard Law School dean has never served as a judge, has little courtroom experience and published relatively little during her years in academia.Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and its ranking Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, requested the Clinton-era documents two weeks ago. Leahy sched
Americans don t just think marijuana use should be legal mdash; they also now think using it out in the open is socially acceptable, and most won t judge others for doing so or feel that they d be judged themselves.Today a slight majority of Americans consider using marijuana openly to be socially acceptable mdash; a shift from when CBS News asked this question two years ago. Though this view is shared by a majority of Americans, most Republicans, conservatives, seniors over 65, and most Americans who regularly attend religious services disagree. Most Americans also say they wouldn t think any less of a person for using marij stanley vaso uana mdash; including most who hardly ever or never use marijuana them stanley termoska selves. Similarly, a majority of Americans say that if they themselves were to use marijuana recreationally, they feel most of their friends and family members would not change their opinion of them. Social acceptability here is tied more to how openly many people in one s s stanley cup becher ocial circle use marijuana rather than one s personal experience with it. Americans who believe none of their friends or family members use marijuana are by far the most likely to judge other people for using it mdash; and to feel that they themselves would be judged for doing so. Even though two-thirds of Americans say they never personally use marijuana themselv Mmrq Obama: We ll break up jobs bill if Senate blocks full package
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan s paper trail is about to get a lot longer.The William J. Clinton Presidential Library is scheduled Friday afternoon to release the first batch of a 160,000-page trove of records from Kagan s service in the former president s White House. The National Archives announced it would post 46,500 pages on the library s website.Kagan, who is President Barack Obama s choice to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, served first as a counsel and then as a domestic policy adviser to Clinton between 1995 and 1999. During that time, the White H stanley cup ouse was juggling a host of hot-button issues that could become flash points in Kagan s confirmation hearings, from gun control and abortion rights to a landmark anti-smoking measure that ultimately died in the GOP-led Congress.Kagan, 50, stepped aside last mont stanley mug h from her post as Obama s solicitor general to stanley thermos focus on winning confirmation. Republican senators and conservative activists have complained that Kagan s views and judicial style remain a mystery because the public record from her professional past is so thin. The former Harvard Law School dean has never served as a judge, has little courtroom experience and published relatively little during her years in academia.Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and its ranking Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, requested the Clinton-era documents two weeks ago. Leahy sched