Posted on 05/10/2010 3:54:54 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Introducing his Supreme Court nominee to the nation, President Barack Obama on Monday portrayed Elena Kagan as a guiding force for a fractured court and a champion of typical Americans. She would be the youngest justice on the court and give it three women for the first time in history.
Less excited, Republican senators said they would give the nomination a long, hard look in potentially contentious summertime confirmation hearings. One declared he would oppose her, but Democrats hold a strong majority of Senate seats, making eventual approval likely.
In choosing Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general and a former dean of Harvard Law School, Obama sought someone he hopes will seal majority votes on a divided court, as the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens sometimes had the ability to do. The president, who said Kagan has "one of the nation's foremost legal minds," wanted someone who could counter the court's conservative leaders as well as sway votes with her thinking and temperament.
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In any case, I've violated my own principle that we should all be viewed as Americans.. Not hyphenated or gender or sexual affiliation and all that crap.. But when you look at what Obama and the left does, you can't help but see that the BEST person for the job is NOT the one selected. It's all based on either race, gender, sexual preference.. Just another cog in Obama's chain of DIVISIVE POLITICS.
Yes, I love how a seat is always reserved for some victim class.
How about competency in understanding original intent of the Constitution?
Why does that always get short shrift?
Protesting gets conservatives jailtime. Liberals get away with murder.
thank you...La Enchiladita...
she cannot and she has showed this plus she has never sat on the bench.
she is an activist, a big time socialist and a big time bozo donor
A White Male Protest would be a controversial choice, almost like picking John Rocker himself.
indeed
are the rats trying to tell us that there is not one judge out there who is more qualified than a homosexual activist who has never sat on the bench
this is all about activism and should be defeated and if any republican votes for her then I will be giving my money a lot of money to defeat them along with my time
Tea.......China?
homosexuals do this all the time
they get into churches etc and then befriend people while those people do not know they are homosexuals.
when they are satisfied they have become good friend then it is time for out of the closet for them thus their new church friends saying I know a homosexual and they’re nice they just want to be left alone
it’s even worked on a couple on here sadly
There’s Ginsberg and Sotomayor, but who would be the third female?
No...I think Obama has a plan....to play the Meirs game and then replace her with a real nasty liberal....who does have qualifications.
Its also the first time three foolish women will sit on the Supreme Court.
Since 1988/Ronald Reagan (22 years), 7 Justices have been nominated. 3 were white males (Breyer, Alito, Roberts). 3 of the last 4 Democrat appointess were female.
You have nailed it precisely! ... This is all about painting Republicans as bigoted against ‘minorities’. This leftist pig is being used for the publicity value. The democrap party has zero respect for the Constitutional Republic, so they use blacks, homosexuals, and Hispanics as tools for political leverage, nothing more. Sadly, these minorities haven’t a clue ... and don’t appear to be able to get a clue in the future, before this Republic is brought down and they are treated as the democrats really see them, as despised burdens no longer needed for democrat empowerment.
You’ll hear about that “gender test” about the same time
we get a look at Zero’s birth certificate!
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Aren’t there still a lot of Protestants in this country? Weren’t they the founders, after all? Pilgrims, Puritans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans. How come none of us are allowed on the Court? What are we supposed to be—second class citizens? Why isn’t there affirmative action and diversity for us?
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