{"id":17116,"date":"2010-05-10T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=17116"},"modified":"2010-05-10T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:28:23","slug":"nm%e2%80%99s-senators-praise-kagan-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/nm%e2%80%99s-senators-praise-kagan-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"NM\u2019s senators praise Kagan nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17117\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17117\" title=\"Kagan, Elena\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Kagan-Elena.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Kagan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New Mexico\u2019s U.S. senators were quick today to praise President Barack Obama\u2019s nomination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/05\/10\/scotus.kagan\/index.html?hpt=T2\">Elena Kagan<\/a> to serve on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>From U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAfter closely examining her record, last year I joined a bipartisan group of senators who supported Elena Kagan for the position of solicitor general. Ms. Kagan has demonstrated sound judgment and exhibited great skill in that key position, as well as in many other challenging jobs she has held. She is also highly regarded in the legal community. I look forward to supporting her nomination.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/tomudall.senate.gov\/\">Tom Udall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cElena Kagan\u00a0is regarded as one of the nation\u2019s leading legal minds. She has proven to be a very able litigator and has received high praise from across the\u00a0political spectrum\u00a0throughout her career. I\u2019m pleased that President Obama has selected such a capable, well-regarded candidate and I look forward to learning more about her\u00a0judicial philosophy\u00a0as the confirmation process unfolds.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico\u2019s U.S. senators were quick today to praise President Barack Obama\u2019s nomination of Elena Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[161,116],"class_list":["post-17116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-judiciary","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}