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Justice Elena Kagan admits gender likely helped land job
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | October 20, 2012 | Mehan Boenhke

Posted on 10/21/2012 4:07:31 AM PDT by don-o

If Elena Kagan was not a woman, she may not be sitting on the country's highest judicial bench, the Supreme Court justice told an audience at the University of Tennessee on Friday.

The candid statement came early in an hourlong conversation-style presentation Kagan held Friday in the Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building, where she also discussed the strategy of deciding the country's top cases and her affinity for hunting with fellow Justice Antonin Scalia.

While seated in padded armchairs on stage, Kagan told UT Law Dean Doug Blaze that being a woman in the courtroom comes with some difficulties, but it also comes with opportunities.

"Every woman knows there are some difficulties one confronts that a man might not have to, but nowhere near what my predecessors did," she said. "And to tell you the truth, there were also things I got because I was a woman. I'm not sure I'd be sitting here, I'm not sure I would have been President (Barack) Obama's nominee if I were not a woman and if he wasn't as committed as he was to ensuring there was diversity on the Supreme Court."

(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; bhoscotus; judicialactivism; kagan; obamalegacy; savethemales; sexism
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To: Gaffer

Do not give them any ideas - FLOTUS will be putting it on school lunch menus.


21 posted on 10/21/2012 5:11:30 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: don-o

Ideology first, gender second.


22 posted on 10/21/2012 5:15:32 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: don-o

Which gender?

Something about Elena Kagan sets off my “Pat” radar.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/its-pat/1353661/


23 posted on 10/21/2012 5:17:31 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Ann Archy
The article linked below is an excellent biographical sketch of Kagan.

Obama's Torpedo: The Strange Case of Elena Kagan
24 posted on 10/21/2012 5:20:37 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: don-o

She is just another Affirmative American lowering the curve.

Pray for America


25 posted on 10/21/2012 5:35:46 AM PDT by bray (Islam- A billion medieval savages can't be wrong!)
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To: don-o
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26 posted on 10/21/2012 5:50:15 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: don-o

No it’s more sinister than that. She sits on the Supreme Court and will make decisions based on what she thinks is fair—not what is in the Constitution. Testicular ownership will be her primary guage for fairness in the universe.


27 posted on 10/21/2012 5:55:24 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: sakic

I don’t think she has ever announced her preference.


28 posted on 10/21/2012 6:03:09 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

It helped her get girls, too.

Thanks don-o.


29 posted on 10/21/2012 7:28:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: don-o; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Otherwise, it was be a phallusy to bill herself as a “wise latina”.


30 posted on 10/21/2012 7:32:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: exDemMom

She got the job because of her lady parts.


31 posted on 10/21/2012 8:02:10 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

bump


32 posted on 10/21/2012 10:30:59 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: kjo

That is why she is on the supreme court. It was her job to see that ObamaCare was upheld as constitutional.

What happened to Roberts, we may never know.


33 posted on 10/21/2012 10:36:20 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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To: Venturer

Then what is the basis for people calling her a lesbian?


34 posted on 10/22/2012 10:32:10 AM PDT by sakic
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To: Venturer

Then what is the basis for people calling her a lesbian?


35 posted on 10/22/2012 10:32:38 AM PDT by sakic
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