Posted on 05/10/2010 10:08:58 AM PDT by DanMiller
President Obama has selected Elena Kagan, the solicitor general of the United States, as his nominee to replace the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. From her official bio: Kagan came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. While on the faculty, Kagan taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003. Aside from employment as an associate in a law firm, her functions before becoming the solicitor general were primarily academic, and later administrative. The closest she ever came to getting judicial experience came when she served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1986 to 1987, and as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court the next year.
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When has Kagen ever been a lawyer? For how long? She is a law professor
When has Kagen ever been a lawyer? For how long? She is a law professor
If on the job training is okay for the White House . . .
It’s like taking a lawyer and making them Chief of Police in Los Angeles.
A supreme court justice isn’t even required to be a lawyer.
A supreme court justice isn’t even required to be a lawyer.
She can if she gets 41 Republican Senators to vote yes. Imagine if a republican tried this.
Administrative law is generally considered a lightweight subject. And even at that she’s published next to nothing. She appears to be a gifted academic politician, but that’s about it.
The last justice to join the court without being a judge was William Hubbs Rehnquist who evertually became Chief Justice.
The last Supreme Court Justice confirmed without Judicial experience was William Rhenquist...almost 40 years ago.
Exactly - Obama could have even appointed Incitatus, his horse...
I like the way you think. :-)
She can’t be worse than Sotomanure. They will vote with the libs and the Swinger Kennedy will see which way the wind blows.
However, the Constitution does require a POTUS to be native born. The real issue is how long before this imposter is removed?
Personally, I’d rather have some non-judge, non-lawyer types on the SCOTUS.
She is an extreme left-wing Marxist. That was her only qualification needed. Oh, that, and she is not white.
She will feel right at home among the other black robed minor gods.
If she’s not white what is she?
William Rehnquist hadn't been a judge before being named to the Supreme Court and he didn't turn out too bad.
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