-Talking Points Memo, April 7, 2010 by Christina Bellantoni
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“It would be hard for Republicans to explain how they voted to confirm [Kagan] for solicitor general without hesitation but she is now unacceptable,” UC Berkeley law professor Daniel Farber, who clerked for Stevens early in his career, told me in an interview…. Farber would like Pamela Karlan of Stanford, whose name arose on a long list last year. She is “outspokenly liberal” and because she is outspoken, “she would clearly get a big fight,” Farber said.
-San Francisco Daily Journal, April 12, 2010 by Daniel A. Farber
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Most of what you’ve heard about Justice Stevens is true. He’s brilliant and unassuming, yet self-confident. What’s less clear is whether he’s a “liberal,” as he is often called. He spent many years as an antitrust lawyer, and antitrust lawyers are great believers in the virtues of competition in the free market. Instead of searching for the politically comfortable outcome, he has always approached cases as fascinating legal puzzles.