Kagan & Thurgood Marshall, Birds of a Feather

[Vale]

SCOTUS Nominee Elena Kagan doesn't have much of a paper trail, having never been a federal judge. This doesn't mean we have no insight on how she would interpret the US Constitution.

As a former clerk to Associate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall it may be rightly inferred that Kagan agrees with, and has in fact never tried to distance herself from his views on judicial activism. Marshall said:

"You do what you think is right and let the law catch up."

Stanford Law Review, summer 1992

This is the same Marshall that was known for being lazy, skipping deliberation to watch "Days of our Lives". He once told his friend Justice Brennan that there was a "lot to be learned about life" from soap operas. Apparently not so much about law was to be learned from the US Constitution.

Kagan has already shown her own willingness to invalidate the plain meaning of texts in her time at Harvard. As Dean of Harvard Law School in 2004 and 2005 she gave two professors (Larry Tribe and Charles Ogletree) a smack on the wrist when they were outed for plagiarism. Well no, not even that. Kagan said "Nevertheless, we regard the error in question as a significant lapse in proper academic practice." Any student would have been suspended at the very least, if not expelled, as per Harvard's written policies. Tribe and Ogletree were not suspended or fired, as leftist lawyers they are above such rules in Kagan's world.

Kagan will not interpret the Constitution as written nor even try to, but will in fact do all in her power to make it a nullity as she legislates from the bench in order to push an ideology that would never be accomplished by legal means through the legislature.

[ImnoMensa]

Originally Posted by Vale

SCOTUS Nominee Elena Kagan doesn't have much of a paper trail, having never been a federal judge. This doesn't mean we have no insight on how she would interpret the US Constitution.

As a former clerk to Associate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall it may be rightly inferred that Kagan agrees with, and has in fact never tried to distance herself from his views on judicial activism. Marshall said:

Stanford Law Review, summer 1992

This is the same Marshall that was known for being lazy, skipping deliberation to watch "Days of our Lives". He once told his friend Justice Brennan that there was a "lot to be learned about life" from soap operas. Apparently not so much about law was to be learned from the US Constitution.

Kagan has already shown her own willingness to invalidate the plain meaning of texts in her time at Harvard. As Dean of Harvard Law School in 2004 and 2005 she gave two professors (Larry Tribe and Charles Ogletree) a smack on the wrist when they were outed for plagiarism. Well no, not even that. Kagan said "Nevertheless, we regard the error in question as a significant lapse in proper academic practice." Any student would have been suspended at the very least, if not expelled, as per Harvard's written policies. Tribe and Ogletree were not suspended or fired, as leftist lawyers they are above such rules in Kagan's world.

Kagan will not interpret the Constitution as written nor even try to, but will in fact do all in her power to make it a nullity as she legislates from the bench in order to push an ideology that would never be accomplished by legal means through the legislature.

I believe we may as well consider this one lost and hope no one else leaves before Obama is gone.

Republicans won't fight her. at least not very hard.

[2ndAmendment]

I find it interesting that she, along with Obama and lots of others in government, media, and the general population do not know what kind of government we have in the U.S. They say "democracy" all the time. We have a republic, period; no adjectives or modifiers applied.

[thesilentwoman]

I saw posted on one of my old collage friend's Facebook page this morning: "Kagan has my support! She had free tampons placed at the Law School in Harvard when I temped there in 2007!"
I suppose I should not be surprised that liberal academic women only need their tampons supplied for free to be happy...Guess we didn't need all that liberation and education...only a free tampon...and to quote Twain's Tom Sawyer, "a string to swing it by..."
s......i.........g........h.........

[Hessian]

Want to get into this nominee's mind?

how about her Thesis paper?

By Aaron Klein
NEW YORK – In her undergraduate thesis at Princeton, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, lamented the decline of socialism in the country as "sad" for those who still hope to "change America." Titled "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933," Kagan opined that infighting caused the decline of the early socialist movement. She asked why the "greatness" of socialism was not reemerging as a major political force.
"In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness," wrote Kagan, Obama's solicitor general."
Socialism's greatness?
You Ivy League academia twisted POS. LOOK around you moron! Look what socialism has done to every nation that invited that cancer in! We defeated it by the 1920's for a reason: We didn't want it.
Now,...you freaking moron, you pine longingly for a chance to let it spread in America? Get out,...I mean it,...get out! go throw rocks in Greece,...go sit in drab concrete apartments in Spain, or Poland...go march in some soul-less May Day parade.
I am so sick of this regime, these anti-American neoprogs who despise this nation, its freedoms, and capitalism.

Republicans MUST fight...it is the only way they can possibly save thier skinny butts come Nov 2nd.
The Tea party will march...and God will not spare those who stand in our way.

[2ndAmendment]

Originally Posted by Hessian

Want to get into this nominee's mind?

how about her Thesis paper?

By Aaron Klein
NEW YORK – In her undergraduate thesis at Princeton, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, lamented the decline of socialism in the country as "sad" for those who still hope to "change America." Titled "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933," Kagan opined that infighting caused the decline of the early socialist movement. She asked why the "greatness" of socialism was not reemerging as a major political force.
"In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness," wrote Kagan, Obama's solicitor general."
Socialism's greatness?
You Ivy League academia twisted POS. LOOK around you moron! Look what socialism has done to every nation that invited that cancer in! We defeated it by the 1920's for a reason: We didn't want it.
Now,...you freaking moron, you pine longingly for a chance to let it spread in America? Get out,...I mean it,...get out! go throw rocks in Greece,...go sit in drab concrete apartments in Spain, or Poland...go march in some soul-less May Day parade.
I am so sick of this regime, these anti-American neoprogs who despise this nation, its freedoms, and capitalism.

Republicans MUST fight...it is the only way they can possibly save thier skinny butts come Nov 2nd.
The Tea party will march...and God will not spare those who stand in our way.

There is the hidden key to why BO wants her. He is a socialist. He wants a socialist SCOTUS.

The Republicans need to delay this confirmation until after the swearing in of the new Congress, so the confirmation will not happen.

[FredFlash]

Originally Posted by 2ndAmendment

There is the hidden key to why BO wants her. He is a socialist. He wants a socialist SCOTUS.

The U. S. is a socialist nation, bro. Americans love socialism. If you don't believe me, just try to repeal the Social Security Act.

[FredFlash]

Originally Posted by Hessian

a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States.

The American people love Socialism. That's why 67% of our Congressmen favored expanding socialized medicine in 2009 by passing the the Marxist legislation that expanded the State Children's Health Insurance Program known as SCHIP.

It's hard to argue that the U. S. isn't a Socialist Nation, at least according to the simple minded wrong wingers who think all government is Marxism.

[FredFlash]

Originally Posted by 2ndAmendment

There is the hidden key to why BO wants her. He is a socialist.

Of course he's a Socialist. We're a Socialist Nation. Americans love Socialism. Every President starting the Abe Lincooln has subscribed to the Socialist Principle that:

The legitimate object of government is to do for the people whatever they need to have done, but which they can not do, at all, or can not do, so well, for themselves - in their separate and individual capacities.

--President Abraham Lincoln

[chernmax]

And people are surprised by the slow release and scrubbing of Kagan information from the White House to mitigate damage for her potential nomination!