Elena Kagan Nominated to Supreme Court

[Millennium]

[Cynicalninja]

So Obama picked her because she is Jewish and (allegedly) gay?

I don't believe that.

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NBC:

"Kagan has never set foot as an attorney of record into a trial courtroom in the United States, not even a small claims justice court; nor for that matter, any appellate court save for the literally handful of spoon fed cases she suddenly worked on as Solicitor General. Kagan has never been a judge in any courtroom, of any court, in the United States. Quite frankly, there is not even any evidence Elena Kagan has sat as a judge for a law school moot court exercise. There have been paralegals and secretaries with better experience than this. Does a nominee for the Supreme Court have to be Gerry Spence, Pat Fitzgerald or David Boies? No, but it would be nice if they had the passion, curiosity and commitment to their profession to go to court at least once. Never has there been a United States Supreme Court Justice with such a complete lack of involvement in the court system. Never."


That says a lot.....So why, knowing all of this, plus her background with gays and people of color, does this person get a nomination?.....I suspect it's her "life history" that gets her the nomination..

[Brian]

I'd like to know her opinion on the death penalty and abortion. Whether or not she's gay is irrelevant to me.

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"As dean of Harvard Law School, she barred military recruiters from using the law school’s Office of Career Services. She reversed her decision after the government threatened to enforce the Solomon Amendment, which allows the federal government to withhold money from universities that do not extend the same welcome to military recruiters as they do to other recruiters. In a message to the school, she wrote, “The importance of the military to our society — and the extraordinary service that members of the military provide to all the rest of us — makes this discrimination more, not less, repugnant.”