Sure, you may think this Supreme Court thing is important. But what about the fact that Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum paid George Alan Rekers (the now disgraced co-founder of the Family Research Council) over $60,000 in taxpayer dollars to serve as his expert witness on the evils of homosexuality. Also, Rekers’ male escort “Lucien” broke his silence in an interview with CNN.
SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein, on how the Kagan confirmation process is likely to play out.
Will Elena Kagan be an intellectual counterweight to Chief Justice Roberts? That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Pretty dramatic changes afoot in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, where Rep. Joe Sestak has overtaken Sen. Arlen Specter in two new polls. Although Specter still holds a 45.0 to 39.1 lead in the TPM Poll Average, you can see Sestak’s movement over the last few weeks:
Obama will make the Kagan nomination official with a 10 a.m. ET announcement at the White House.
There were various hints and background suggestions over the weekend. But now it appears all but certain President Obama will announce his choice for the Supreme Court tomorrow.
Google’s Chrome browser continues its rapid growth. The last time we checked the percentage of TPM Readers using Chrome was in January of this year, when it accounted for 7.17% of visits to the site.
By April that number had risen to 9.15%.
Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) has been defeated for re-nomination at his state party’s convention.
Muhlenberg is running a daily tracking poll of the Democratic senate primary in Pennsylvania. And after surging over the last few days, Joe Sestak has pushed into a 2 point lead in today’s number.