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Obama to Nominate Elena Kagan to SCOTUS
Neoavatara ^ | May 10, 2010 | Neoavatara

Posted on 05/10/2010 5:04:51 AM PDT by Neoavatara

Elena Kagan, Solicitor General of the United States, is to be named as successor to liberal stalwart Justice John Paul Stevens as early as today by President Barack Obama.

Kagan, 50, a New York native, has been widely reported to be the front-runner for the nomination. She was a finalist for the high court vacancy last year when Justice Sonia Sotomayor was selected to replace the retiring David Souter. If confirmed, Kagan would be the third woman on the nine-justice bench and the fourth in the history of the court.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: elenakagan; obama; supremecourt; teaparty
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To: Neoavatara
I wonder if the Senate Republicans are going to roll over and play dead on this dangerous appointment.

(Never mind answering, I think I already know).

Leni

21 posted on 05/10/2010 5:39:26 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore" - 10/20/09 "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: BlueLancer

What, Neapolitan the lesbo home de-fense secretary needed a boyfriend/girlfriend?
First he appointed a Hispanic/gay, now a he/she gay?
What next?


22 posted on 05/10/2010 5:41:14 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: ryan71

No, I think he is one of the actors on Mad TV.


23 posted on 05/10/2010 5:41:31 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Rummyfan

A bitter commie dyke that has never sat on the bench as a judge?


24 posted on 05/10/2010 5:44:17 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: Rummyfan

Now we have Rodney Dangerfield in drag.


25 posted on 05/10/2010 5:44:52 AM PDT by Freds2nd
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To: Rummyfan


You can't fool me. That's Ptaches Kennedy!
26 posted on 05/10/2010 5:49:32 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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To: Neoavatara

I sure hope this turns out to be Oblunders “Harriet Miers”.


27 posted on 05/10/2010 5:53:17 AM PDT by diverteach (D.C. has become Jonestown.)
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To: Rummyfan
It's Pat


28 posted on 05/10/2010 5:55:34 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: FES0844

Sad to say you are correct.


29 posted on 05/10/2010 5:56:05 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Thank You God for Freeing the Navy Seals)
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To: ryan71

No kidding.

What is it about the correlation between democrats and sideshow freaks?

Isn’t it great to know that latino racists and bull dyke lesbians are in charge of our court systems? What a sick world we live in.

Damn right SCOTUS is becoming a damn kangaroo court.


30 posted on 05/10/2010 5:58:32 AM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Rummyfan
now we'll have a what????

What my mother used to politely call a "confirmed bachelor"....

31 posted on 05/10/2010 5:59:43 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Neoavatara

I seem to remember the left just about having a collective aneurysm over the Harriet Myers nomination due to the fact that she had never been a judge. I guess I won’t hold my breath for similar outrage from them this time with an equally unqualified nominee.


32 posted on 05/10/2010 6:00:16 AM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: Neoavatara

She looks like “Chaz” Bono.


33 posted on 05/10/2010 6:09:15 AM PDT by ivoteright (Sooner born, Sooner bred)
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To: Neoavatara

The Daily Caller

Elena Kagan’s most notable foray into public life was kicking military recruiters off of Harvard’s campus

By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller 05/10/10 at 2:37 AM

Elena Kagan’s most notable foray into public life was kicking military recruiters off of Harvard’s campus.

President Obama’s latest choice for the Supreme Court has held a number of high-profile jobs over the years, but she has left a relatively thin paper trail, with one major exception. As the dean of Harvard’s law school, Kagan fought to bar military recruiters from the university’s campus. Her reasoning? Even with two wars in progress, she contended, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should disqualify the US military from having any association with the school. “I abhor the military’s discriminatory recruitment policy,” she said, describing it as a “moral injustice of the first order.”

Critics say Kagan’s legal arguments on the matter are so preposterous that they raise doubts about her ability to serve on the bench. And indeed when the Supreme Court later rejected her position on military recruiting at Harvard, it did so unanimously.

Beginning in 2004, Kagan changed established Harvard policy and barred recruiters from the school’s career center. The Pentagon responded by invoking the Solomon Amendment, a 1994 law that explicitly requires universities that receive federal funding to allow military representatives at least as much access to campus as any other group. With Harvard’s $400 million in annual grants on the line, Kagan was forced to surrender.

But she kept fighting. Kagan and the university filed an amicus brief arguing that Harvard’s policy did not amount to discrimination against the military. The university, claimed the brief, does “not single out military recruiters for disfavored treatment: Military recruiters are subject to exactly the same terms and conditions of access as every other employer.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/10/elena-kagan%e2%80%99s-most-notable-foray-into-public-life-was-kicking-military-recruiters-off-of-harvard%e2%80%99s-campus/print/#ixzz0nX3qsrqM


34 posted on 05/10/2010 6:18:22 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Rummyfan

“First we had a wise latina, now we’ll have a what????”

Here is a clue:

“Obama Will Pick That Rumored Lesbian Elena Kagan for Supreme Court”

“Kagan became dean of the law school in 2003. ‘’The military policy that we at the law school are overlooking is terribly wrong, terribly wrong in depriving gay men and lesbians of the opportunity to serve their country,’’ she said shortly after becoming dean at the law school’s first reunion for its gay, lesbian and bisexual alumni. Later, as the issue intensified with protests on campus, she wrote in an e-mail message to students and faculty, ‘’I abhor the military’s discriminatory recruitment policy.”


35 posted on 05/10/2010 6:25:01 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

I am sure the repubs will fight this nominee every step of the way.....


36 posted on 05/10/2010 6:26:27 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: BlueLancer

37 posted on 05/10/2010 6:42:13 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Rummyfan

Separated at birth??

38 posted on 05/10/2010 6:44:42 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Rummyfan

Is this a guy trying to look like a woman or a woman tryin to look like a man?


39 posted on 05/10/2010 6:45:52 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (?)
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To: Neoavatara
Seems Kagan pisses off everyone. The Progressives are all complaining she is not Leftist enough.

It is O’s Harriet Meyers moment

40 posted on 05/10/2010 6:45:52 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
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