Posted on 05/10/2010 8:21:26 AM PDT by jessduntno
Republicans are questioning Elena Kagan’s ties to a liberal icon and the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.
In its first memo to reporters since Kagan’s nomination to the high court became public, the Republican National Committee highlighted Kagan’s tribute to Marshall in a 1993 law review article published shortly after his death.
Kagan quoted from a speech Marshall gave in 1987 in which he said the Constitution as originally conceived and drafted was “defective.” She quoted him as saying the Supreme Court’s mission was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.”
“Does Kagan Still View Constitution ‘As Originally Drafted And Conceived’ As ‘Defective’?” the RNC asked in its research document. “And Does Kagan Still Believe That The Supreme Court's Primary Mission Is To ‘Show A Special Solicitude For The Despised And Disadvantaged’?”
Kagan, currently the solicitor general, is a former law clerk for Marshall, who was appointed to the court in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson and served until 1991.
The GOP memo stops short of directly attacking Kagan for her use of Marshall’s words, but it offers a preview of the lines of criticism that may come from Republican senators opposed to her nomination. The document also points to Kagan’s support for a lawsuit against the Bush administration’s efforts to deny federal funding to law schools that banned military recruiters from their campus in protest to the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy on gays.
“While Republicans have shown they will be respectful throughout the nomination process, they will also be forceful in asking Elena Kagan whether she will stand with American people or with Obama Dems’ agenda,” pledges the RNC document, titled “Strong But Respectful.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Attack?
How about Question?
“How about Question?”
A lifetime appointment for a young Communist who views the Constitution as defective...if they don’t lay down a barrage and filibuster this one, there isn’t a single one of the R’s that should ever be allowed to walk those halls again...I don’t give a shit who takes their places. If this isn’t the straw that breaks the camel’s back, I don’t know what it will be. Van Jones was a right wing fanatic compared to this ...whatever.
She fits in well with this mob.
Bork the butch.
Yes sir, that’s some real fair and balanced reporting right there...
...but watch "her" be confirmed 70-30.
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I am beginning to wonder if Kagan isn’t a “sacrificial lamb” nomination. Build up a huge sh*t-storm of controversy, then withdraw the nomination and put in another far lefty that would appear more moderate and palatable.
Attack it for being a lesbian!!!
Thanks for posting this. I knew Kagan when she clerked for Abner Mikva. She just about wet her pants when she got the Marshall clerkship. Her views, if anything, are to the left of Marshall. If anyone needs to be borked, it is Kagan.
“I am beginning to wonder if Kagan isn’t a “sacrificial lamb” nomination.”
You would think so, but these people see a shit storm coming their way in Nov and I think they are trying to ram as much crap through as they can..and if this isn’t crap that needs ramming, I don’t know what is.
Filibuster. Bork her. Bork her hard. She needs it.
“She quoted him as saying the Supreme Court’s mission was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.”
So she is a perfect fit for the current Obama regime....
yes! those EVIL GOP are ATTACKING!...
... and they are usiung FACTS!! HOW DARE THEY!!!!
NOT like those sweet, loving democraps who were so pleasant to Clarance Thomas and Roert Bork and Sam Alito.
.......and she has NOT ONE documented case to verify her ability to adjudicate at the state supreme court level, nor federal court of appeals because she has never sat on the bench.
Robert Bork interview (comments about Obama court selections in second question):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWdK3kfvDnQ&feature=related
Special treatment is the opposite of equality.
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