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New nominee to United States Supreme Court

7 points by grellas 17y ago

apu 17y ago
Worrying elements about her: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/08/kagan/ http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/08...
- hga 17y ago
  More of those: http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/10/she-is-certainly-a-fan-of-pres http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/10/she-is-certainly-a-fan-of-...
hga 17y ago
Conservative law professor in general asks "What's the fuss?" and e.g. directly replies to Glenn Greenwald: This one among other things covers the "Didn't recruit enough minorities" issue, which sounds bogus to him and me due to the law of small numbers: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/so-why-am-i-already-defending-elena.html http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/so-why-am-i-al... This one covers the grab bag of "left-wing blogosphere" complaints: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-do-they-hate-elena-kagan.html http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-do-they-ha... This one covers her position on same sex marriage: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/supreme-irony-kagan-nomination-ends-gay.html http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/supreme-irony-... "[...] she clearly believes it is a matter for the political process, not a constitutional right." (Which is also where I believe it belongs.) Note that she's lesbian, which the White House is making a big deal about the mention of ("It's a smear") to which the right is most replying "Huh?". As in it's not that big a deal with WRT her, e.g. she doesn't seem to define herself in terms of that and she's perhaps like Mary Cheney, it's just a fact of life for them. The big, real issues as far as I see are: She's not much of a scholar, more of a doer. She was Bill Clinton's Associate White House Counsel among other things, was a good Dean of the Harvard Law School (which they really needed) and currently is Obama's Solicitor General. Before that last position she'd never argued a case at trial and she's never been a judge. These are not automatically disabling things, but no one including herself really knows how she'll perform as a judge. For the left she's certainly a gamble, like Souter was for the right.

7 points by grellas 17y ago

apu 17y ago

Worrying elements about her: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/08/kagan/ http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/08...

hga 17y ago
More of those: http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/10/she-is-certainly-a-fan-of-pres http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/10/she-is-certainly-a-fan-of-...

hga 17y ago

Conservative law professor in general asks "What's the fuss?" and e.g. directly replies to Glenn Greenwald: This one among other things covers the "Didn't recruit enough minorities" issue, which sounds bogus to him and me due to the law of small numbers: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/so-why-am-i-already-defending-elena.html http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/so-why-am-i-al... This one covers the grab bag of "left-wing blogosphere" complaints: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-do-they-hate-elena-kagan.html http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-do-they-ha... This one covers her position on same sex marriage: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/supreme-irony-kagan-nomination-ends-gay.html http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/supreme-irony-... "[...] she clearly believes it is a matter for the political process, not a constitutional right." (Which is also where I believe it belongs.) Note that she's lesbian, which the White House is making a big deal about the mention of ("It's a smear") to which the right is most replying "Huh?". As in it's not that big a deal with WRT her, e.g. she doesn't seem to define herself in terms of that and she's perhaps like Mary Cheney, it's just a fact of life for them. The big, real issues as far as I see are: She's not much of a scholar, more of a doer. She was Bill Clinton's Associate White House Counsel among other things, was a good Dean of the Harvard Law School (which they really needed) and currently is Obama's Solicitor General. Before that last position she'd never argued a case at trial and she's never been a judge. These are not automatically disabling things, but no one including herself really knows how she'll perform as a judge. For the left she's certainly a gamble, like Souter was for the right.