There is absolutely no downside to filibustering this buffoonish woman. Nobody but Obama wants her, she is unqualified and the public knows it, it will raise enthusiasm in the conservative base to see the GOP growing a spine, and finally, every minute spent filibustering this woman is a minute closer to election time that the rats can’t use to force something else down our throat.
I’m expecting she will be confirmed and the (R)s will do the talk circus...er...circuit saying she was obama’s pick and he deserved to get who he wanted on the court.
Filibuster becomes filibluster and the country will suffer.
I would like to see the GOP go after this. Ignorance and general liberalism are one thing, but the lack of integrity that seems to be coming to the surface now just cannot be acceptable for a Supreme Court justice.
Coburn blew it with this question regarding the Commerce Clause. Legislation mandating that each American’s diet include three servings of vegetables per day would not violate the Commerce Clause. The question is whether the Commerce Clause empowers such action by Congress.
It might be reasonable to argue that the Commerce Clause does not authorize legislation regarding diet. However, given the Supreme Court’s rulings in Wickard v Filburn and Gonzalez v Riach, the Commerce Clause seemingly grants unlimited power for Congress to legislate. Certainly, the dietary mandate would affect interstate commerce more than growing crops that are entirely to be used for personal consumption and which cannot legally be sold in interstate commerce. The only remaining limitation that could be applied to a dietary mandate would appear to be the Necessary and Proper Clause. There may be a reasonable argument that dietary legislation is not necessary and proper.
Such legislation would clearly violate the original intent and clear language of the 9th and 10th Amendments. It is likely that Kagan considers these to be dead letters. It would have been much, much better if Coburn had asked whether such absurd legislation violated these amendments.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
This should have been on the table the first day with Butchie Marxist.
She is so amazingly unqualified it is a national embarrassment that she was ever nominated.
NO to a lifetime appointment that impacts millions of lives.
I wouldn't rule out half a dozen Republicans crossing over to override the filibuster, either.
It's not "liberal political beliefs." Her beliefs are socialistic. She is a socialist to the core.
What they are BLIND to is the fact that confrontation of the leftist overthrow of America is what is generating their current support.
Filibuster will bring ADDITIONAL support to the GOP.
Boy I hope they do filibuster her nomination. What she would be replacing does not exhibit the same degree of distain for the Constitutional values as she does. Plus, anyone who does not show a respect for the life of an infant is morally encumbered to begin with. Given that, I hope we can find some Republicans with enough backbone to try to block her. She definitely is everything Obama said in his campaign that he would look for in a Supreme Court Justice. And that’s just the point!
We can’t let this fool get on the court.
Kagan is even to the left of Ginsburg.