Kagan Unlikely To See GOP Filibuster On Nomination [A Republican Retreat!]

YahooNews ^ | May 16th 2010 | ESSE J. HOLLAND

[Steelfish]

Kagan Unlikely To See GOP Filibuster On Nomination

By JESSE J. HOLLAND WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is unlikely to face a GOP filibuster but should expect difficult questions from lawmakers who will decide whether she deserves the lifetime appointment despite having no judicial experience, the Senate's second-ranking Republican said Sunday. "The filibuster should be relegated to the extreme circumstances, and I don't think Elena Kagan represents that," said Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The committee chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said he hoped to have Kagan on the bench this summer, succeeding retiring Justice John Paul Stevens well ahead of the new term that begins in October. GOP senators are placing great weight on her testimony in determining the fate of President Barack Obama's second nominee for the high court. At issue is her lack of a judicial paper trail.

Kagan is now solicitor general, the top government lawyer who argues the administration's cases before the Supreme Court, and was dean of Harvard Law School. But she has never been a judge. "She has so little other record, this is going to be a big deal," said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the committee's top Republican. "It's so important how she testifies."

[GeronL]

She won’t recuse herself I bet.

Anyone who thinks government should censor free speech should never get on the bench

[WashingtonSource]

Filibuster her fat, Commie ass.

[Canedawg]

It is exactly times like these when we can focus on how radical Obama is, by exposing how radical his friends are!

you're giving them too much credit for having a long-term strategy.

[Buchal]

Excellent summary. If not one Republican Senator can even attempt a filibuster against a socialist extremist, times are dark indeed. Unless social conservatives and libertarians can unite in the face of these dangers, and stop picking at each other, we are doomed. If only there could be some kind of non-aggression pact for the overriding purpose of pruning back the feds . . .

[srmorton]

Boehner has no power to discipline Olympia Snowe and nothing to do with the confirmation of Kagan because he is the Minority Leader of the USHOR. Snowe is a Senator and it is the Senate who handles the confirmation process.

[SuperLuminal]

Only someone who has slept since 1994 would think otherwise.

The current worn-out crop of guppies will always resort to form...Just wactch how they reflexively bend over and spread'em.

[ncpatriot]

what is wrong with the repub party!!!!!

[Louis Foxwell]

It is shocking that she is not viewed as the extremist her positions and opinions demonstrate her to be. This is a case of an appointee who is manifestly unqualified as an enemy of the Constitution. The failure of elected Republicans to know this simple truth is appalling. She should never, under any circumstances, get on the court.

[Venturer]

We have Obama now because the last RINO,, McCain picked by the RNC, couldnt cut the mustard.

More than likely they will pick another RINO the same way.

If they cannot follow the demands for a Conservative , they deserve to lose.

[Tanniker Smith]

When have the GOP *ever* filibustered a SCOTUS nominee?
They roll over and play nice so that the Dems will do the same a few years from now. Except that part never happens.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Here are a few selected FReeper comments to date:

Chief Justice Roberts:

Kagan Asked Court to ‘Embrace Theory of First Amendment That Would Allow Censorship Not Only of Radio and Television Broadcasts, But Pamphlets and Posters’

In another article, titled “Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V,” she writes, “I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the un-coerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation.”
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, helped craft President Bill Clinton’s political strategy for sustaining his veto of the partial-birth abortion ban in 1997. As a result of Clinton’s successful veto that year, the ban was not enacted until 2003, when it was signed by President George Bush.
I can settle the question for everyone on the site.(Harvard Connections, you know.) Kagan is gayer than Christmas in Port-au-Prince.

She’s in the back of the closet, just like Barney Frank was until he was outed and heroically made a virtue out of being a god-curséd sodomite SOB, as well as a crook.

Now, about her hard-core, real-orders-from-the-Kremlin-belong-to-a-cell, commie family. Dad was a big time commie union infiltrator.

Mommie was a commie.

Bro still is a big-time commie.

These Kagans are NYC commies from the 1930’s, 1940’s, type of people. Elena? Red Diaper baby type. Can sing the “Internationale,” but not the SSB.

Pull the old Kagan FBI Files.

Look’em up in the VENONA files. I hope every Republican Senator does.

You don’t have to have very many brain cells to know that Elena Kagan is a Pluto-bound abortion-loving socialist. The thought of that grinning overfed New York dyke on our Supreme Court for the next 30-40 years makes me weep for my country.

Her heroes: Abner Mikva, Thurgood Marshall, Cass Sunstein (who believes the Constitution requires taxpayers to fund abortion and has proposed abolishing marriage - the pure Communist line since 1917) and Aharon Barak Israeli Supreme Court justice Aharon Barak (who has been called Israel’s “Big Brother”)

[shanover]

God help us if Bozo can some how get one more divine justice on to the court after this loser.Game set match I suppose.