The ultimate ultraleft judicial activist.
The list, ping
Jeeze Barack Obama, just cut to the chase and put Israeli Justice Aaron Barack on the court! Why settle for the the understudy?
“Barak created a degree of judicial power undreamt of by our most aggressive Supreme Court justices…. Among the rules of Israeli law that Barak’s judicial opinions have been instrumental in creating are that any citizen can ask a court to block illegal action by a government official even if he is not personally affected by it …; that any government action that is “unreasonable” is illegal…; that in the name of “human dignity” a court can order the government to alleviate homelessness and poverty; and that a court can countermand military orders….”
I have not yet found the smoking gun but I strongly think it’s out there somewhere. Kagan appears to be an adherent to Critical Legal Studies. A neo-Marxist legal theory that believes that law is no more than politics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_legal_studies