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Kagan: Scalia Took Me 'Big-Game Hunting'
The Hill ^ | 07/02/13 10:31 AM ET

Posted on 07/02/2013 11:41:27 AM PDT by drewh

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a crowd at the Aspen Ideas Festival that fellow Justice Antonin Scalia took her "big-game hunting," boasting that she had bagged a deer on the trip. "I shoot birds with him two or three times a year now," Kagan said. "At the end of last year we had been bird shooting 4 or 5 times ... he said to me, 'It's time for big-game hunting.' We actually went out to Wyoming this past fall to shoot deer and antelope, and we did ... I shot myself a deer."

Kagan said she began hunting with Scalia to fulfill a promise she made during her confirmation process, during which she fielded questions about her views on the Second Amendment.

"Quite a lot of [lawmakers], both Republicans and Democrats, ask about your view on the Second Amendment. ... They'll say, 'Have you ever held a gun?' " Kagan said. "I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and this was not something we really did." Kagan said she promised one lawmaker that if she was "lucky enough to be confirmed," she would ask Scalia to take her hunting. "He thought it was hilarious, he thought it was a total crackup," Kagan said of Scalia's response when she attempted to fulfill the promise.

The Supreme Court justice, who just wrapped up one of the more contentious terms, with high-profile cases on the Voting Rights Act and same-sex marriage, admitted that following a grueling session, justices "might need a vacation from one another." But she said her hunting trips with Scalia were indicative of how the justices respected one another despite ideological differences.

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To: cdcdawg
"...I shot myself a deer."

After I got me one of them thar huntin' licenses

21 posted on 07/02/2013 12:03:38 PM PDT by Roccus
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To: drewh
"... Justice Antonin Scalia took her "big-game hunting," boasting that she had bagged a deer on the trip. "I shoot birds with him two or three times a year now," Kagan said. "At the end of last year we had been bird shooting 4 or 5 times ... he said to me, 'It's time for big-game hunting.' We actually went out to Wyoming this past fall to shoot deer and antelope, and we did ... I shot myself a deer.""

What a man!

22 posted on 07/02/2013 12:04:55 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Jewbacca
Yes, but how could you tell the difference between Kagan and the hogs?

All the hogs will be running from Kagan ... therefore, only shoot the lead animal ...

23 posted on 07/02/2013 12:10:36 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: cdcdawg

“can I get muh self a huntin license here?”- John F’n Kerry

leftards have to pretend they can relate to the unwashed masses .


24 posted on 07/02/2013 12:12:41 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Atlas Sneezed

I’ve taken several lib friends to the range.

A few dozen or hundred rounds down range, combined with calm, rational saftey training (and getting to see and meet the other people there) can do more than all the screaming and NRA stickers in the country.

The only real problem is that our local ranges usually have very lousy restrooms facilities, which my female friends find distasteful.

Having a friend, and her daughter, experience what firing a pistol, shotgun and rifle is really like was quite cool; they are NEVER going to believe the folks who try to tell them how a easily available handgun can shoot 100 people or such BS.

One of them did pop himself in the head with the scope of my 300 win mag “oh. I’ve shot a rifle before...”... but seeing a seriously smokingly hot female co worker working a 6” stainless 357 King Cobra on a target she imagined to be her ex (and I think she sent him the sillhouette hahahah)was something I’ll never forget.


25 posted on 07/02/2013 12:15:04 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Jewbacca
While I don’t have a problem with hunting, Kagan claims to be an Orthodox Jew . . .. which generally forbids sport hunting by Jews and makes it all but impossible for Jews to eat hunted meat (except in unusual/extreme circumstances).

I must've missed that one in the dietary laws.
Then again, Jesus did have something to say about loading people down with rules… as well as traditions.

26 posted on 07/02/2013 12:17:59 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: drewh
I call 100%, pure, unadulterated BS.


27 posted on 07/02/2013 12:17:59 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Tactical Awareness. Use your brain. Then bring the pain.)
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To: drewh

Maybe Scalia can introduce her to Dick Cheney...


28 posted on 07/02/2013 12:18:50 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: drewh

Someone needs to spend some time with Scalia at the range.


29 posted on 07/02/2013 12:22:04 PM PDT by SilverMine (ever member of congress should be horse whipped)
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To: Jewbacca

She’s Conservative, not Orthodox. And hunting for food is not forbidden.


30 posted on 07/02/2013 12:22:46 PM PDT by stormer
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To: drewh

” I shot myself a deer.””


I was excited until I got to the last 2 words. Had she just stopped at the first 3.


31 posted on 07/02/2013 12:25:10 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: drewh
Someday he should take Kagan,the Wise Latina,Bryers and Kennedy hunting.There could be a tragic mishap with his M-60.
32 posted on 07/02/2013 12:25:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: Jewbacca
...Kagan claims to be an Orthodox Jew...

She grew up in an Orthodox environment but I believe the now calls herself Conservative (ironically). Doesn't she actually attend a Reconstructionist synagogue?

33 posted on 07/02/2013 12:25:51 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Good for her and nice to know Scalia is a hunter.......

If I had three wishes, none of them would be for world peace but instead,

#1.....a day of fishing with President Bush

#2.....bird hunting with VP Dick Cheney

#3.....dinner with Rush

34 posted on 07/02/2013 12:30:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This space for rent)
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To: drewh

Liberal elitist Black Robe Champion of Obamacare now enamored with firearms. Not impressed. “Guns for me, but none for thee.” She would rule against and invalidate the 2nd amendment in a heart beat.


35 posted on 07/02/2013 12:33:44 PM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: cdcdawg

...I shot myself a deer.

Any chance she will learn herself some grammar?


“Where can I git me a huntin’ license?”


36 posted on 07/02/2013 12:44:52 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
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To: stormer

Hunting for food is not forbidden, correct. Sport hunting is considered cruel for Jews (not Gentiles).

And birds are less of a problem than mammals.

But mammals that are shot (or whatever) are not ritually slaughterd in a manner to ensure they do not suffer, so eating them (unless one really needs to eat) is difficult, in that the meat is not kosher.

There is a growing school of thought, however, that there IS a proper method for Jews to hunt animals, but this knowledge was lost during the Diaspora where the Jews were considered foreign, could not own land, and thus had no ability to hunt.

Growing up in rural Israel, I fall into this category, in that I believe there is a proper method to make hunted animals kosher, but the knowledge escapes us at this time and shall be re-discoverd.


37 posted on 07/02/2013 12:50:27 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: OneWingedShark

In your zeal to push your religion, you missed the point -— Kagan is a fraud.


38 posted on 07/02/2013 12:51:24 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: jjotto

Who knows. I vaguely recall she was going to a shul that was the equivalent of a Joel Osteen Orthodox group.

All flash, no substance.


39 posted on 07/02/2013 12:52:14 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: drewh

I give Kagan credit.


40 posted on 07/02/2013 12:57:33 PM PDT by KAESNO2
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