Friday, May 14, 2010

White House circulating pro-Kagan talking points on diversity

Salon.com
Thursday, May 6, 2010 15:19 ET
By Mike Madden

For the moment, the White House hasn't settled on a nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. But that doesn't mean the administration is sitting quietly as the legal and political world speculates about who President Obama's pick might be.
In the last couple of weeks, after Salon's Glenn Greenwald linked to this post by Duke University law professor Guy-Uriel Charles raising questions about the minority hiring rate at Harvard Law School when Elena Kagan was dean there, White House officials started circulating a set of talking points pushing back on the criticism, sending it out to various groups allied with the administration....

Take a look at the talking points here.

Full story: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/05/06/white_house_kagan_talking_points/index.html

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