Posted on 05/10/2010 10:35:46 AM PDT by Starman417
What an unbelievable act of cronyism:
President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, choosing a candidate with no judicial experience but a reputation as a consensus-builder to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.Let the examination begin.
Senators pledged to scrutinize Solicitor General Elena Kagan in the weeks ahead after President Obama on Monday nominated her to the Supreme Court, choosing a candidate with no judicial experience but a reputation as a consensus-builder to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
Jack M at Ace of Spades HQ has it down pat after imagining a nominee like Kagan being appointed by a theoretic future President Demint:
...a crony appointment of a wholly unqualified nominee based primarily on the facts that: the nominee shares a high profile view on a single issue that is "politically correct" in the Administration's eyes; that appeals to a specific voting block in the President's base; and that provides a major fundraiser with the "understood" assurances that their legal interests will have someone keeping an eye on them.The Kagan selection is "Crony Capitalism" extended to the Federal Bench. It is emblematic of everything that is wrong with the "Chicago Brand" of politics.
In its own way, is it even worse and more cynical than the selections of Sonia Sotomayor (who was confirmed) and of Harriet Myers (who wasn't). While I disagreed with both of their nominations, I never imagined their selections to be inherently corrupt in their inception.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
Anyone BO/BS nominates will be a mirror image of himself.
Obie only needs 1 R Senator to get her nomination to the floor....that should take all of 5 minutes.
Has there ever been a nominee that the appointing POTUS didn’t like? Why would a president pick someone that they didn’t like or disagreed with them?
Remember all the shyt Bush got for nominating the woman with no judicial experience?
wow
A real cute lesbian looking woman!
Cut her hair shorter, and she reminds me of The Toesucker.
You’re right! She DOES look like Dick Morris
Obama is nominating someone who has never served on the bench, who believes that the Constitution of the United States is a :
QUOTE:
“FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED AND DEFECTIVE DOCUMENT”
Quoting from a speech by Thurogood Marshall
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