Republicans Push Kagan on Health-Care Recusal

Senate Republicans on Tuesday said they wanted to know whether Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan would recuse herself from a possible Supreme Court challenge to this year’s health care law.
The issue is not likely to derail her expected Senate confirmation, but it could give Republicans who are opposed or on the fence an additional reason [...]

Daniel Henninger: “Berwick: Bigger Than Kagan”

Barack Obama’s incredible “recess appointment” of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably the most significant domestic-policy personnel decision in a generation. It is more important to the direction of the country than Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
The court’s decisions are subject to the tempering [...]