The Executive Branch- Presidential Appointments

The United States Constitution, The Articles of Confederation, Article Two, Section 2, Clause 2, Sub-Clause 2- Presidential Appointments
"...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..."
Baker, Peter. "Obama Picks Kagan as Justice Nominee." New York Times. 9 May 2010. Web. 9 May 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/politics/10court.html

The Second Article of the United States Constitution, like the First and Third outline the specifics about the jobs of the United States Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, and Legislative Branch. The Second Article although it is supposed to be about the Executive Branch seems to speak of only the President. The President and his duties, his responsibilities, his job outlines and so on and so forth. The Executive Branch is an important one because although the president never directly executes anyone there is a fine bureaucratic system, at play that is larger than most of the people in it, which he in theory leads. The Executive Branch is also important because it helps to jeep the checks and balances system as is shown here, where the Legislative Branch can impeach the President where he would be tried by the Supreme Court and [insert scenario here], but on the other side of those checks (and possibly balances) is a President that Appoints officials into the Supreme Court and can Veto Bills if he pleases.

This article talks about the recent talks about President Barack Obama and how he has nominated someone for the Supreme Court using his Constitutional Power to Appoint Officials and Dignitaries and so on and so forth, although he is not appointing more like nominating. For the momentous occasion which many call the retiring of soon to be retired Justice John Paul Stevens President Barack Obama has keenly chosen Elana Kagan to take his place. Although many make the argument that she is terribly ill-prepared for the task of being a Supreme Court Justice, she and the President think that she is suited fairly well for that job seeing as she can bring relative youth to the Supreme Court. This shows that the constitution is living and in action because it is clearly shown that the president is cleary assuming all of his presidential duties and using his privilages as written in the constitution.

I do not really care much about the subject and I will state why, I do not care much because chances are whatever happens is going to happen. She could either be appointed or not and in my mind there is really no big deal. Although she could have some pull regarding future legislation I think this is just a glorified publicity stunt because that news networks hope go terribly wrong to judge either President Barack Obama or Elena Kagan on bad decisions and and bad legislation that nine out of ten times will have to do nothing with the subject at hand. I also do not care much for it because although I am a citizen that is a choice that I do not get to make, unless I am the President, which would make my mother awfully happy, but I highly doubt. So why should I care about something that in theory I have no voice in?