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Why Republicans are treading lightly in Elena Kagan hearings
Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo ^ | Tue Jun 29, 8:57 am ET | Gail Russell Chaddock

Posted on 06/30/2010 7:24:42 PM PDT by dr_who

Washington – At Day 1 of her Senate confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan struck tones of modesty and restraint – the template for every nominee since Judge Robert Bork opted to go toe-to-toe with liberals on the Senate Judiciary panel in 1987 and was rejected.

“The Supreme Court is a wondrous institution,” Ms. Kagan said in her opening statement. “But the time I spent in the other branches of government remind me that it must also be a modest one – properly deferential to the decisions of the American people and their elected representatives.”

It is this time spent in other branches of government – specifically, as the Obama administration solicitor general – that, under typical circumstances, might have become a focal point of these hearings. But Republicans are treading softly in asking for Kagan’s memos as solicitor general, guided by a deep sense of injustice over a failed judicial nomination far less well known – yet little less controversial – than the Bork nomination.

From 2001 to 2003, Democrats refused to confirm President Bush’s solicitor general, Miguel Estrada, for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. It was the first-ever filibuster for an appeals-court nominee, and it centered on Mr. Bush’s refusal to give over memos produced by Mr. Estrada in his work as Bush’s top lawyer.

That shadow lingers over these hearings, with Republicans seeking to take the moral high ground.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elenakagan; kaganscotusgop; scotus
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To: hellbender
Why Republicans are treading lightly in Elena Kagan hearings

Because they lack the necessary organs, like gonads and spines.

Recent photo of the current Republican leadership

41 posted on 06/30/2010 8:50:55 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: dr_who

Because they are cowards and nothing but politicians who care more about THEIR careers and THEIR benifits than they do the well being and future of America.


42 posted on 06/30/2010 8:57:24 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Heavenly Father, deliver us from evil and from those perpetuating it, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: dr_who

Because they’re really Wee Publicans.

(thanks to Jim Eason for the moniker)


43 posted on 06/30/2010 9:00:02 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: dr_who

Quite simply, iz it gonna take gunz?


44 posted on 06/30/2010 9:03:34 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja (Rebuke, Renounce, Repeal, Repeat,...)
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To: dr_who
Why Republicans are treading lightly in Elena Kagan hearings

Because a) they're a bunch of pansies and political cowards, or b) they're progressives, too, but just don't want to reach Communism as fast as The One.

Either way, I'M SICK OF IT! BORK KAGAN!

45 posted on 06/30/2010 9:04:04 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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To: dr_who

My theory is that they did a vote count and found out they don’t have enough votes for a filibuster, and therefore, don’t have anything to threaten with.

Thank you “McCain is a RINO so I’ll stay home” voters.


46 posted on 06/30/2010 9:53:09 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Could Odumbass have picked a worse candidate? Noooo
Have the Republicans ever gotten their way even when
they held the presidency and congress? Noooo
Will they do something this time? Noooo
Are we screwed one more time? yessss


47 posted on 07/01/2010 1:17:09 AM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: backwoods-engineer

These hearings are an absolute cakewalk compared to the Bork and Thomas hearings. Plus they don’t want to be seen beating up on a girl. Doesn’t Drudge have a pic up of her crying? For Pete’s sake, can you imagine Bork or Thomas resorting to TEARS?


48 posted on 07/01/2010 2:24:17 AM PDT by 1951Boomer
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To: 1951Boomer
Plus they don’t want to be seen beating up on a girl.

Are you sure it is one.

49 posted on 07/01/2010 2:27:34 AM PDT by jslade (People that are easily offended OFFEND ME!)
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To: LibFreeUSA

Here is a MUST SEE embedded video although it begins discussing Sarah Palin’s resignation. But it evolves to discussing Alinsky and his followers in the DNC and their strategy of “holding moral people to moral standards while immoral people have no standards to be held to”. The key point made toward the end is WE MUST be willing to fight just as dirty with these Alinsky socialists or we will lose this war and lose America. The absolute best vid op-ed...you can’t take a knife to a gun fight!

http://weekendpundit.org/2009/10/sarah-plain-is-not-fading-away.html


50 posted on 07/01/2010 2:31:45 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: dr_who
Where the heck is Orren Hatch!!?? The woman has no respect for the Constitution and regards the law as something to twist around in order to gain political advantage.

Damn the man for rolling over again.

51 posted on 07/01/2010 3:36:23 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: chris37

I sort of think she looks a little like John Belushi.


52 posted on 07/01/2010 9:49:08 PM PDT by Basement Dweller
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

Note: this topic is from 6/30/2010.
53 posted on 07/07/2010 6:04:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv

This Kagan thing has as much bizness being on the SCOTUS as I do. Actually, I probably have more.


54 posted on 07/07/2010 6:13:47 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: dr_who

Republicans play nicely on every issue!

Time to get down and dirty!


55 posted on 07/07/2010 6:21:32 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: bigheadfred

No argument from me.


56 posted on 07/07/2010 8:18:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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