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As Marshall clerk, Kagan was wary of conservatives
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/25/10 | Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko - ap

Posted on 05/25/2010 2:49:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – As a young lawyer working for Justice Thurgood Marshall, Elena Kagan repeatedly expressed her concern that a conservative Supreme Court was looking for ways to cut back on the rights of women, criminal defendants and prisoners.

Documents from Kagan's year with Marshall show a law clerk who was frequently assessing the politics of the institution. Her memos to the justice are on file in Marshall's papers at the Library of Congress.

Kagan's time with Marshall, the groundbreaking lawyer who argued against segregation and later became the first African-American on the court, is likely to be a subject at her confirmation hearing, scheduled to begin in late June. She would be only the sixth justice to have served as a law clerk for the high court, but the only one whose former boss's papers were public at the time of her nomination.

Some Senate Republicans already have signaled they could make issue an issue of Kagan's clerkship with Marshall, whom conservatives have branded an activist judge more concerned about outcomes than rules.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clerk; communist; conservatives; kagan; wary

1 posted on 05/25/2010 2:49:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
As Marshall clerk, Kagan was wary of conservatives

No!

2 posted on 05/25/2010 2:50:41 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (we shall overcome a generation of affirmative action.)
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To: NormsRevenge

File under DUH...a Lesbian socialist worried about conservatives...


3 posted on 05/25/2010 2:51:01 PM PDT by jessduntno (Kagan...Filly-bust-her. Bork her. Bork her hard. She needs it.)
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To: NormsRevenge
So Kagan was the secret agent of the forces of evil leading an elderly black man astray.
4 posted on 05/25/2010 2:51:19 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: NormsRevenge

Filibuster this communist!


5 posted on 05/25/2010 2:51:45 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: NormsRevenge
"...a conservative Supreme Court was looking for ways to cut back on the rights of women, criminal defendants and prisoners.

LOL! Women really need to find a better crowd to hang out with.

6 posted on 05/25/2010 2:52:34 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Kiss my AZ!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
"rights of women, criminal defendants and prisoners"

I wonder why she couldn't find her way to be concerned with EVERYBODY'S rights. Of course though, she probably believes our rights are passed down from government.

7 posted on 05/25/2010 2:58:00 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist" - I Hate Mexico)
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To: NormsRevenge

I can forgive the stupidity of youth.....but her present mindset proves her brand of dumb had nothing to do with being young.


8 posted on 05/25/2010 3:00:05 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (FREE ARIZONA!)
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To: NormsRevenge

See tagline.


9 posted on 05/25/2010 3:31:14 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bummer calls opponents "Teabaggers". So we can call Kagan "Carpet Muncher." Right?)
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