Posted on 05/10/2010 2:46:39 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today hailed President Obama’s selection of United States Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nominee for the opening on the United States Supreme Court created by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens.
“We applaud President Obama for choosing Elena Kagan to become our nation’s next U.S. Supreme Court Justice,” said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. “The U.S. Supreme Court decides cases that intimately affect the lives of all Americans. We are confident that Elena Kagan has a demonstrated understanding and commitment to protecting the liberty and equality of all Americans, including LGBT Americans.”
Issues that are critical to the LGBT community may reach the Supreme Court in the next few years, including issues related to marriage equality, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, the Defense of Marriage Act, and the new federal hate crimes law. When issues like these come to the Supreme Court, it is vital that we have fair-minded judges to rule on these cases.
In addition, we commend President Obama for his commitment to diversity and expanding the number of women on the Court. Diversity on the Court brings a broader view of the way that the law affects real people, including LGBT people. Once confirmed, Elena Kagan would be the fourth woman to serve on our nation’s highest court and would be the third woman sitting on the current Supreme Court, marking the highest representation of women on the Court in its history.
Elena Kagan will bring extensive legal experience and a strong background as a previously Senate-confirmed government official to the nation’s highest court. As Solicitor General in the Obama Administration, as a former legal advisor on domestic policy in the Clinton Administration and as the former Dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan has demonstrated a commitment to fairness and equality. Specifically, we applaud Elena Kagan’s vocal opposition to the Solomon Amendment and the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law.
HRC will continue examining the record of Elena Kagan on issues that affect the LGBT community. Moreover, we look forward to the Senate’s thorough examination of Elena Kagan’s judicial philosophy and record. To learn more about federal judicial nominations and to follow our work on these crucial issues visit HRC’s Equality in the Courts page.
HRC defines a fair-minded judge as a person who demonstrates:
A commitment to full equality under law for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans; individuals living with HIV and AIDS; women; people with disabilities and racial, ethnic, and religious minorities; A commitment to the constitutional right to privacy and individual liberty, including the right of two consenting adults to enter into consensual intimate relationships; A respect for the constitutional authority of Congress to promote equality and civil rights and provide statutory remedies for discrimination and violence; A sophisticated understanding of and commitment to the separation of church and state and the protection of those citizens with minority religious views; and A respect for state legislatures' attempts to address discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity and other factors through carefully crafted legislation that meets the requirements of the Constitution. The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
What a freak show!
Great. What could be better than a sexual cripple on the Supreme Court?
And yet the White House won't comment either way on the subject of her being a carpet muncher.
Losers choosing losers.
Hey, let’s let the local high school dropout pilot the loon’s jet.
Please.
Obastard is so worried about the Supreme Court reflecting American values but doesn’t care that not one Christian is on the court.
Obastard is so worried about the Supreme Court reflecting American values but doesn’t care that not one Protestant Christian is on the court.
“Obama taps Kagan..."
That mental image is more than appalling
Our enemies are the New World Order, muslims, feminists, and "gays". Put obama, Kagan, and the HRC together, and we're being attacked by all four of them at once. No thank you!!!!
Didn’t she play the lead in “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”...??
Anyone have an opinion on how this is gonna play in PA-12?
Sorry folks, one more for the above trio.
Well....I mean...she’s damn near a twin for whatsherface.....NappyPollyTano? C’mon...you profiled and made the decision just by the Drudge picture, dinchya? I know I did...wasn’t wrong, either....
Excellent, THANKS!! If I had known who the butch was on the right............well..
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0thugga is hiring a huge number of sexual perverts. Someone posted a list the other day, can't remember where it is, pretty sure I pinged it out. Huge list. He's hiring them as fast as he can. He told some meeting of LGTB?W that he (and Mrs Thug) would be the best friends "gays" would have ever had in the White House. That's one promise he's keeping.
If the Repubs don't filibuster, stonewall, or whatever else they can do to prevent this odious, homosexual, socialist, Harvard elitist old buddy of 0thugga's from getting a seat on the SCOTUS, every one of of them should be voted out.
The time of bi-partisanship, going along, being nice - IS OVER!
I’m going to take a little break from FR starting today - mental health break! I tried a couple of weeks ago and it didn’t work.
The bad news is overwhelming me and I need a couple of weeks of much more prayer and reflection and reading. I’m getting too nervous and distraught - tears keep coming to my eyes - I need spiritual strength.
See you when I get back!
Look at something beautiful, listen to something beautiful, do something beautiful.
I will pray for you and with you.
Thank you so much, Mrs. Don-o! More prayer, for one. Playing my guitar and learning dulcimer, for another. Mending, re-starting my exercise plan, trying out my new colored pencils, doing my herb stuff.
I am not holding up the world so everyone and everything will go on just fine even if I don’t know about it and am not pinging articles for a few weeks.
;-)
I always appreciate prayer. It IS the daily bread. People can fast from food or from bread for a few days, but a day without prayer is to me like being dead.
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