Posted on 05/23/2010 5:33:25 AM PDT by rellimpank
When the Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings June 28 for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, the senators should take her at her word.
Back in the 1990s, in a review of a book about the Supreme Court confirmation process, Kagan bemoaned the hearings for Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer as "official lovefests," appearing to long for the days when people like Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas underwent high-tech lynchings at the hands of the senators.
"When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues," Kagan wrote, "the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public. Whatever imperfections may have attended the Bork hearings pale in comparison with these recent failures."
When it is her turn, Kagan should be thoroughly engaged in discussion of legal issues to see how firmly her feet are planted on the bedrock of the First Amendment, which has recently been buoyed by a couple of Supreme Court rulings that f
She should be BORKED so badly she withdraws.
Like Obama, Kagan is a threat to the Bill of Rights. In their view we should be a People’s Democratic Republic of the USA that has more in common with East Germany than what our founding Fathers envisioned.
How are “societal interests” advanced by “Piss Christ?” Answer is: They are not. However, it is the price paid for a corrupted culture and we have learned to live with it.
If Bork (or Roberts or Thomas) had ever alluded to the non-protection of blasphemy under the First Amendment, would our leaders and media been so uninterested in those views? I think not.
Yes, she is just that! Now tell me just how many of our so called Constitutional Senators will put up a fight!
Not very many that I see... they are too interested in getting re-elected rather that cause a stink...
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