It appears that the nominee who has gotten the most attention in the past couple of weeks, Elena Kagan, will be nominated by Obama to Replace Stevens on the Supreme Court. Kagan is somewhat of a surprising pick simply because she is the first nominee in about 40 years who has never served as a judge. In fact, her entire legal career has been pretty light-weight. She served as the Dean of the Harvard law school and she is currently the Solicitor General, but she really has no litigation experience and almost no publication history. In fact, I’ve have about as many law review articles published as she has. This means there is very little paper trail and so we have no idea where she falls for many issues, although I think we can safely say she is going to fall to the left on most.
Some on both the right and left are already comparing this pick to that of Harriet Meirs under the Bush Administration. Like Meirs, Kagan is a long-time friend of Obama’s and she also has very little legal experience outside of academics and politics. The far left is worried that since she has no paper trail that she may not be liberal enough.
The question that is yet to be answered is how tough Republicans are going to be on this pick and should they filibuster it. Over at Ace’s Jack M has an interesting analysis. His basic theory is imagine if a hypothetical President DeMint hired an old crony from South Carolina law school who has very little legal experience, was involved in a controversial decision (like banning military recruiters from the school) and who’s biggest qualification seems to be that he’s “safe” and a long-time friend of President DeMint. Would the left standby and vote for him or would they filibuster him? Of course they wouldn’t, this is just crony capitalism Supreme Court style.
What’s the over/under on how many votes she gets? I’m guessing it’s about 75. The GOP is pretty spineless when it comes to this kind of stuff, so I don’t expect much opposition. I’m sure Graham and Hatch are already fitting her robes for Kagen.
May 10th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Is Elena Kagan lesbian?
May 10th, 2010 at 11:33 am
If not she sure is one ugly dude.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
That was the rumor. The White House came out pretty hard to squash it, but some of the students at Harvard said it’s an open secret, so who knows.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Is Lindsey Graham (R-SC) lesbian, I mean gay?
Some guy from SC has Graham’s lifestyle in his crosshairs. It’s an open secret.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Is she married to a man ?
Have kids ? Whatever, I could care less, shes as big an opponenet to dont ask dont tell as any other moonbat and no doubt Obamas tool that the right will be able to do nothing about.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Even Andrew freaking Sullivan wonders if she is gay http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/05/so-is-she-gay.html. To me sexual orientation is irrelevant, but if she is going to carry a certain agenda because of her orientation that is relevant. I can’t believe I’m actually going to agree with Sullivan, but I think it’s a legitimate question to ask.
What is more relevant is her stance of blocking the military from interviewing at Harvard was ridiculous.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
@Bryan
According to Napolitano on FOX this morning what she did was constitutional at the time until Rehnquist changed it 4 years later.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
But, it was still ridiculous.
May 10th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Yeah I think Lindsay Graham is gay. He’s much too pretty to be a Real Man, but that’s off topic. But back on topic, I’m wondering if Elena Kagan is lesbian or just looks as butch as a rhino’s ass.
May 10th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Shepard Smith will be talking to Kagan in a few minutes
May 10th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Shepard Smith will be talking to Kagan in a few minutes
Did he hit on her?
May 10th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
LOL.
Aww fudge. I backed up my DVR and he said “shes in the cube” I thought he said ‘in the studio’
never mind
May 10th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Again using liberal logic, if Kagan is
‘Supremely Qualified’— With No Experience then why can’t I be a judge or a justice? I watched Perry Mason and Matlock.
She is the perfect choice for Obama. They are cut from the same cloth. In 1980 while at Princeton, she authored a piece for the student newspaper called “Fear and Loathing in Brooklyn.” In it, Kagan said she “absorbed … liberal principles early,” and she lamented the political success the right was having. She wrote that she looked forward to a time when a “more leftist left will once again come to the fore.”
Her senior thesis at Princeton focused on the demise of the Socialist movement in the early 20th century. Kagan referred to it as “… a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America.”
As a justice are you not suppose to rule based on what the constitution says and not on what one wishes it said?
She is a liberal thru and through and only in the world of Obama would she be Supremely Qualified.
May 10th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Bryan..I’m in total agreement with comment #6.
And I believe she is a lesbian but we won’t know for sure til she gets that lifetime job.
May 11th, 2010 at 1:04 am
I wonder what you a$$holes look like.
May 11th, 2010 at 5:46 am
@McCain,
Kagal could be both, Gramham will be outed before Nov. and what about orange-skinned Boehner? He’s real pretty too.
May 11th, 2010 at 6:25 am
When I first saw her I thought it was a SNL bit like the old “Pat” gag they use to do. If fact I think it is Pat. Does this mean Obama likes lesibans cause Michelle has that look too. Kagan most likely went to his/her senior prom with his/her cousin Marty.
May 11th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Nice try Fangled but Graham and Boehner will not be effecting SCOTUS rulings as Kagan will with whats beggining to look like another freaking Van Jones.
May 11th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Lesbians aren’t as dangerous as liberals. She may be a lesbian and she is certainly ugly enough to stop a runaway race horse but the real issue is her politics not to mention her lack of judicial experience.
Lesbians are OK if they are a spin off of Tammy Bruce.
May 11th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
“Lesbians aren’t as dangerous as liberals.’
That depends on which river you’re rafting.
Tribe on the bank scared the crap outta me
May 11th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Eagan just likes to get the job done lickety split!
Eddie 87)