Kagan: Bad on Abortion, Gun Rights and the Commerce Clause

Human Events ^ | 6/15/10 | Carrie Severino

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Another round of documents from Elena Kagan's time in the Clinton White House was released Friday afternoon, giving further evidence of her decidedly liberal legal and policy positions.

The release comes as a Rasmussen poll shows that support for Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court has fallen to 33% while opposition to her nomination has risen eight points to 41%. By way of comparison, 28% of the public opposed Harriet Miers’ nomination at the time she withdrew under fire from the process. The public remains highly engaged in the nomination process, with 73% reporting that they are following the news about Kagan. Here are some of the hot topics Kagan-watchers will be talking about based on these newly released documents:

Abortion: Kagan believes the Constitution contains a nearly unfettered right to partial-birth abortion, an extreme position the Supreme Court ultimately rejected. She opposed a ban on partial-birth abortion, even one with an exception for the mother’s health, because she believed it took away one “safe” abortion technique from abortion providers and thus burdened the right of women to abort their pre-viable children for literally any reason they pleased. The Supreme Court, by contrast, upheld a partial birth abortion ban even without a health exception and cited the state’s substantial interest in “promoting respect for human life at all stages in the pregnancy” by not allowing “a doctor to pierce the skull and vacuum the fast-developing brain of [a mother’s] unborn child, a child assuming the human form.”

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In other words, your typical, rank marxist

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The release comes as a Rasmussen poll shows that support for Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court has fallen to 33% while opposition to her nomination has risen eight points to 41%. By way of comparison, 28% of the public opposed Harriet Miers’ nomination at the time she withdrew under fire from the process...

Yeah, But the difference between Kagan and Miers is that the Bush administration actually cared about public opinion. The Obama administration view is ram her through public opinion be damned and hope people come around later, just like they did on healthcare.

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"Kagan: Bad on Abortion, Gun Rights and the Commerce Clause"

Really?! Who knew?!

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I think scumbag traitorous liberal sums it up...

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One could add “and courtroom experience” to that headline

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Message to Kagan and others like her: legislate all the statist crap you want - your writ doesn’t run here.

[RatRipper]

Bad on freedom of speech, too.

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Yep, that commerce clause or commerce has been the Senate’s dirty little secret for years.

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The Obama administration view is ram her through public opinion be damned and hope people come around later, just like they did on healthcare.

I agree with most of that. This administration doesn't care whether the public comes around later or not. It is a life time appointment and there is little that can be done about it.

As you said, they proved with the health care bill they didn't care what we thought. They think if they can get their socialist agenda in place the chances of overturning it are slim. The 16th Amendment which created the IRS and the graduated income tax was not officially or correctly ratified. They just proceeded with it as if it was and now the question is moot.

That is all they want. A socialist Supreme Court is about all they need. They can legislate from there if necessary.