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Administration lawyer delays Supreme Court debut (no courtroom experience)
Las Vegas Sun ^ | 4/19/09 | AP

Posted on 04/19/2009 10:36:48 AM PDT by Nachum

Elena Kagan, the Obama administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, is passing up the chance to make her first high-court argument in a big case over minority voting rights.

Instead, Kagan, confirmed by the Senate last month as solicitor general, will wait until the fall to make her debut, Justice Department spokeswoman Beverley Lumpkin said Tuesday

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: administration; delays; lawyer; supreme
Kagan has a most impressive resume _ former Harvard Law School dean, Clinton White House official and Supreme Court clerk _ but she has little courtroom experience.

Don't know whether to laugh or cry...

1 posted on 04/19/2009 10:36:48 AM PDT by Nachum
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The List, ping


2 posted on 04/19/2009 10:37:09 AM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

i’m laughing. i doubt there is anything that she could be advocating that I would want her to succeed at.


3 posted on 04/19/2009 10:43:55 AM PDT by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: Nachum

I don’t believe Obama did any vetting of nominees, or maybe someone told him to nominate individuals and like a good dog he did


4 posted on 04/19/2009 10:49:02 AM PDT by chemical_boy
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But the Republicans in the Senate did not need to rubber stamp incompetence.


5 posted on 04/19/2009 10:57:07 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs. Emmanuel = Haldeman?)
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But the Republicans in the Senate did not need to rubber stamp incompetence.

Yeah, the Republicans should have insisted that the most socialist president has someone very skilled at defending socialism before the highest court.

Think before you type, please.

6 posted on 04/19/2009 11:04:38 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Nachum

Is ANYONE in Obozo’s administration qualified?


7 posted on 04/19/2009 11:09:07 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: Nachum
Kagan has a most impressive resume _ former Harvard Law School dean, Clinton White House official and Supreme Court clerk _ but she has little courtroom experience.

Some people, especially in the media, are easily impressed.

8 posted on 04/19/2009 11:13:58 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Nachum

The never married Kagan must be too busy interviewing female interns.....

My God, are there no "Normal" productive people with experience in the REAL world and not academia or community organizing in the Dalai Bama's administration?

9 posted on 04/19/2009 11:14:07 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Nachum

“a most of impressive resume”

Surely, 0 would lend her one of his many teleprompters for the courtroom.


10 posted on 04/19/2009 11:38:46 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Nachum
Kagan has a most impressive resume _ former Harvard Law School dean, Clinton White House official and Supreme Court clerk _ but she has little courtroom experience.

But the Supreme Court isn't like your average courtroom. Each side makes their case and answers questions posed by the Justices. There is no evidence, no jury, no examination and cross-examination. And if the Voting Rights case is the biggest case on the docket then I'd hate to have to come up to speed in 10 days. This is much to do about nothing.

11 posted on 04/19/2009 11:47:47 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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I agree completely. I would certainly want more than 10 days to get ready for a Supreme Court argument, and I have had a lot of courtroom experience.


12 posted on 04/19/2009 12:25:32 PM PDT by blau993 (Fight Gerbil Swarming)
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To: pabianice

Just remember all the hubbub over the questions and length of the background investigation paperwork all nominees were supposed to fill out. Apparently they focused on things like whether or not the nominee had ever owned a gun and why than things like conventional sex life and associations.

It kind of turns the normal process to get a security clearance upside down. There is no way these people could get a normal security clearance with it’s focus on things like communist associations. The only way is to get elected and then appointed.

You have to wonder how much stuff is going out the door directly to Castro and Chavez’s intelligence agencies directly from the government, not to mention the Chinese and Russian agencies.


13 posted on 04/19/2009 12:35:42 PM PDT by Belasarius (Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job 5:2-7)
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