Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, February 15, 2016. Happy Presidents’ Day!
Axelrod recalls Scalia’s interesting SCOTUS nomination suggestion
Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away over the weekend, and former senior advisor to President Obama David Axelrod didn’t have much in common ideologically. But Axelrod recalls that Scalia suggested to him that the president appoint the justice’s liberal friend Elena Kagan to the court. What do Kagan, Axelrod, and Scalia have in common? The University of Chicago, where Kagan and Scalia taught and Axelrod, who attended the school as an undergrad, now directs the Institute of Politics. [CNN]
