Posted on 07/13/2010 11:45:03 AM PDT by funfan
Should Elena Kagan be confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice?
Yes. She's proven that she's going to be a fair jurist.
No. She's too liberal for the court.
I think I need more information.
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Should Elena Kagan be confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice?
Yes. She’s proven that she’s going to be a fair jurist.
45%
No. She’s too liberal for the court.
52%
I think I need more information.
2%
She is not only too liberal, but clueless about the law. I am sending this letter to the Senators.
Elena Kagan and Natural Rights
Senator Coburn asked Elena Kagan whether there are natural, inalienable rights for people, which our founding fathers understood to be independent of and condition precedent for the Constitution. The same understanding is among the founding documents of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt did have to compromise on the inclusion of god to get the Soviet Union to sign on, but all nations at that San Francisco conference acknowledged inherent individual human dignity.
Kagan’s failure to understand and acknowledge natural, inalienable rights, as a test for laws enacted by societies, should be fatal to her confirmation. Here is a comparison of defining textual portions of the documents.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world…. Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations,
Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Arguably Eleanor Roosevelt’s greatest political achievement was successfully enacting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nation. She was so successful that even the Soviet Union endorsed the document. I am appalled the Senate is about to endorse someone to sit on the Supreme Court, who is so bereft of soul and mind as to fail to acknowledge human freedom as the base from which good law arises.
The "No" should be a plain no. It is no because she has the experience of Harriet Miers; she has zero experience on the bench, not to mention her anti American, pro murder of the unborn, and related far leftist leanings!
Freepers note that the poll is on the right near the bottom.
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Yes. She’s proven that she’s going to be a fair jurist.
42%
No.
55%
I think I need more information.
2%
Results are based on 9290 votes
Yes. She’s proven that she’s going to be a fair jurist.
40%
No.
56%
I think I need more information.
2%
Results are based on 12440 votes
Shouldnt this poll add up to 100% ?
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