The Executive Branch

Source: Obama Chooses Elena Kagan For Supreme Court 

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/10/scotus.kagan/index.html?npt=NP1

Constitutional Connection: Article II, Section 2

"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments."

Explanation of connection: This article is about how Obama chosen fifty year old Elena Kagan for Supreme Court. She will be the 112th Supreme Court justice. For the first time court will not have no protestant justices, but will have a Jewish catholic.

This article demonstrates Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. The president has the power to nominate ambassadors, public ministers and consuls, judges of the supreme court, and other officers of the United States. He gets to nominate them if he has the consent of the Senate.

I think that it is good that Obama changes the race of a supreme court justice because we need something different than before. Before, the supreme court justice was all protestants.