Posted on 05/15/2010 9:51:18 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Conservative lawyers and academics are voicing support for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, praise that could soften criticism from the right and provide cover for any Republican senators inclined to vote for her nomination.
The essence of their take on Kagan, the former Harvard Law School dean who now serves as solicitor general, is that she clearly has the smarts to be a justice and has shown an ability to work with all sides on thorny issues.
“She has had a remarkable and truly unusual record of reaching out across ideological divides,” said Michael McConnell, a former federal appeals court judge who was nominated by President George W. Bush.
Longtime Kagan friend Miguel Estrada, whose appeals court nomination by Bush was blocked by Senate Democrats, said, “She’s clearly qualified for the court and should be confirmed. Obviously, she’s a left-of-center academic who never would have been picked by a Republican. But no one can doubt her intellectual accomplishments.”
In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday, Estrada said, “If such a person, who has demonstrated great intellect, high accomplishments and an upright life is not easily confirmable, I fear we will have reached a point where no capable person will readily accept a nomination for judicial service.”
Former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who ran the investigation that led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, said charges by some conservatives that Kagan holds extreme views are off-base.
“That’s politics, and unfortunately confirmation politics have been very ugly, with a few happy interludes, ever since the nomination of Judge Robert Bork,” Starr said on MSNBC.
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Then they must not be very conservative.
Well, whatever chance we had of sinking this nomination became even smaller. I can only hope that she’s not as terrible as we fear.
And I'm voicing BS on this one. There is no way in heck a Conservative would support ANY type of ban on free speech, let alone a socialist dyke.
In some cases, they’re returning the favor.
http://greatarticlesnews.blog.com/2010/05/01/elena-kagan-endorsed-controversial-bush-nominees/
And what thorny issues would that be?
In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday, Estrada said, “If such a person, who has demonstrated great intellect, high accomplishments and an upright life is not easily confirmable, I fear we will have reached a point where no capable person will readily accept a nomination for judicial service.”
Uhhhh Miguel, pull your head out of the sand. We blew through that threshold about twenty years ago. Does the name Bork ring a bell?
“Conservative friends rise in support of Kagan (BS! BARF ALERT!)”
There. I fixed the title for you...
:)
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Good point. Ted Kennedy’s “In Robert Bork’s America” was a low point in the history of American judicial confirmations.
Whoops, I forgot that part. lol
Response: She will be.
She told off the Federalist Society “You are not my people”
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Someone who does believe in free political speech is not someone who should be near the bench.
And, don’t forget, we are a “Right of Center” nation.
So, that puts Kagan 180 degrees out of touch with the majority of Americans...
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NOT THE JOB OF THE SC!....it's to “interpret” the Constitution as the Founding Fathers intended...
MY AGENDA: I want to know where she went to primary and high school. She has boasted about her mom being a public school teacher and bloviated about “public” service. Did she go to public schools? I know the West Side of Manhattan well. Nearly all the residents are reflexive ONETHINK liberals. And nearly all their children are sent to the pricey private schools that dot Manhattan—lest they rub shoulders with someone who is Black or Brown. Vile hypocrites! If a West Side liberal family is temporarily cash strapped, they may shamelessly use clout and political connections to place their kids in one or two selective public high schools. But this is a much less used option.
All you need to know!
I don't care how "intellectual" she is if her intent is to re-write the constitution!
Well she very clearly falls outside of Up-Chucky Schumer’s criteria of ‘Mainstream’.
Take note of which “Conservatives” are supporting this nomination. This makes it easy to determine the frauds (RINOs).
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