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During the debate over legislation to ban partial birth abortion in the 1990s “the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said an expert panel it commissioned could find no medical reason why the partial-birth abortion procedure would ever be used to protect a woman’s life or health.” In a memo to President Clinton, Elena Kagan wrote that publication of the ACOG’s findings “would be a disaster — not the less so (in fact more so) because ACOG continues to oppose the legislation.” In her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kagan admitted that she was the author of handwritten notes...

Elena Kagan's senior thesis at Princeton University, recounting the history of socialist politics in New York City, cited the theories of an influential German Marxist who notoriously switched allegiances to Nazism after Adolf Hitler attained power. Werner Sombart was widely recognized as an academic proponent of Marxism and was once praised by Karl Marx's colleague Friedrich Engels as the only German professor who understood Marx's Das Kapital. During World War I, however, Sombart endorsed Germany's "heroic" war against the "capitalist spirit" represented by England. In 1934, Sombart published Deutscher Sozialismus, which advocated the "total ordering of life" as an expression...

Despite being thoroughly unqualified to occupy the bench, Elena Kagan will most likely be confirmed to the Supreme Court. This is because most of our hundred senators are almost as unqualified to judge a judge as she is to be one. What is the proper criterion to apply? Well, a simple analogy illustrates the point best. Let's say you needed to hire a football referee. If he said that he was a "pragmatic" referee, who viewed the rule book as "living" and thus would interpret the rules to suit the "times," would he be your man? Since it's the job...

Though there has been plenty of partisan bickering during this week's confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, there is at least one issue raising concerns on both sides of the aisle. There are questions about how many cases Kagan would have to sit out if she's confirmed, and just how willing she would be to do that. As Solicitor General, the government's top lawyer before the high court, Kagan has been involved with a number of cases that will show up during the Supreme Court's fall term. On Tuesday she testified, "I think that there are probably about...

In introducing his last Supreme Court nominee 13 months ago, President Obama gushed forth like an out-of-control oil spill about what he saw as Sonia Sotomayor’s main qualification—her “wisdom accumulated from an inspiring life's journey.” Obama lavishly praised her “distinguished career,” which included having worked “at almost every level of our judicial system.” All this courtroom time, he assured us, provided Sotomayor “with a depth of experience and a breadth of perspective that will be invaluable as a Supreme Court justice.” “Walking in the door,” he continued, “she would bring more experience on the bench and more varied experience on...

Barry Hussein Soetoro is an anti-Constitutionalist President. He has so much as said so himself. So he needs an ally on the Supreme Court, someone who shares his views—views such as the Constitution is a flawed document and flawed individuals wrote the Constitution. As such, the Constitution’s relevance for a new progressive era is questionable at best and just hopelessly archaic at worst. I think that we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that is carried on until this day and the framers had that same blind spot. And I don’t think that...

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has announced he will vote against current Solicitor General Elena Kagan's confirmation to the United States Supreme Court. Saying Ms. Kagan does not live up to the judicial philosophy that "the law must control the judge; the judge must not control the law," Senator Hatch will join at least several other Republicans in officially opposing her lifetime appointment to the high court. While this news will most likely have no effect on Ms. Kagan's confirmation, Senator Hatch's statement does give the mainstream media at least one more chance to do their job with regard to President...

<p>Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) announced this morning that he’s opposing Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court.</p> <p>“Qualifications for judicial service include both legal experience and, more importantly, the appropriate judicial philosophy,” he said in a statement. “The law must control the judge; the judge must not control the law. I have concluded that, based on evidence rather than blind faith, General Kagan regrettably does not meet this standard and that, therefore, I cannot support her appointment.”</p>

Kagan The Pagan "Among Jewish People There Is A Type That Jews Themselves Call A Bagel And Lox Jew. Kagan The Pagan Is A Bagel And Lox Jew. What Does This Mean? It Means A Person Of Jewish Descent Who Mocks Her Own Religion. ...."

It is a remarkable fact that President Obama has nominated to the Supreme Court a woman who, as dean of Harvard Law School, discriminated against military recruiters in violation of federal law. Remarkable, but true. Yesterday, our friend Pete Hegseth testified in opposition to Kagan's confirmation at the invitation of Republican members of the Judiciary Committee. I find it interesting that his perspective--no doubt representative of most Americans--is one that the Democratic members did not think it necessary to consider as part of the confirmation hearing. Pete stated this part of the case against Elena Kagan eloquently:

Elena Kagan has now admitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee that as a Clinton lawyer in 1997, she fraudulently revised an official medical opinion by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The medical society was going to publicly reveal that "its panel of experts found no circumstances in which the (partial birth abortion) procedure was the only option for saving the life of the woman." In a secret internal memo, she wrote that "This, of course, would be a disaster[.]" Kagan therefore secretly revised the language so the final statement in 1997 claimed that the partial-birth abortion "may be...

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is getting some flak because under questioning by Sen. Tom Coburn she refused to recognize "natural rights" outside of the U.S. Constitution, presumably including those mentioned in our Declaration of Independence. The Oklahoma Republican then asked Kagan if she believes American citizens have "a fundamental right" to own firearms for self-defense, which he noted the great English jurist William Blackstone described as a "natural right." Kagan responded by saying, "To be honest with you, I don't have a view of what are natural rights independent of the Constitution." Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Kagan-dodges-and-weaves-on-natural-rights-97608954.html#ixzz0scxeC1U8

Dennis Prager Q&A at the University of Denver. Watch the video.

Here's the content of my postcard to all 41 GOP Senators: If you vote to confirm Kagan you are helping in the demise of our Civil Societ, way of Life and Country. Kagan is a political hack and a Chicago Clone and Crony of Obama who has no respect for the Declaration of Independence or the 2nd Amendment and needs to be FILIBUSTERED! NO to Kagan NO to Cap & Trade NO to Amnesty NO to VAT STOP SPENDING Please honor me with a reply. Signed....

Coburn and Kagan on Natural Rights Jacob Sullum | July 2, 2010 The day after he unusuccessfully pressed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to define the limits of the Commerce Clause, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) unsuccessfully pressed her to take a position on natural rights: Coburn: Do you believe it is a fundamental, pre-existing right to have an arm to defend yourself?Kagan: Senator Coburn, I very much appreciate how deeply important the right to bear arms is to millions and millions of Americans. And I accept Heller, which made clear that the Second Amendment conferred that right upon individuals, and...

Elena Kagan's controversial "Final Conflict" thesis on socialism was written in 1981 when she was 21 years old. Professor Harvey Klehr, an expert on the socialist and communist movements, told me that while he sensed "a lurking sympathy" in the document for the left-wing of the Socialist Party, he didn't find a "red flag" that would derail her nomination. Kagan's thesis covered the rise and fall of the socialist movement in New York City from 1900-1933. Clearly, however, the socialist movement has risen again, under the cover of the "progressive" tradition that includes not only the President who appointed Kagan...

To Kagan, the Constitution is not our foundational document, from which we learn the basic structure and functions of our government. Kagan, and liberals like her, do not start with the Constitution, then determine whether what they propose is permissible. Instead, they go in the opposite direction. They start with their leftist, statist agenda, then try to find a part of the Constitution that − by some stretch of the imagination − might seem to justify what they want to do. Sen. Coburn concluded, holding up a copy of the Constitution, “The guys who wrote this never, ever fathomed that...

As Senators [Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota] joke about whether Elena Kagan had seen or not the latest teen-sex-vampire movie Eclipse, or "what did you do on Christmas" [Lindsay Graham, S. Carolina], there are more serious things to think about Elena Kagan. Orrin Hatch even informed Elena Kagan that "hell is not boring." Ha Ha Ha. Like: Why did she forge an opinion into a scientific document written by the American medical community which falsely stated that live birth abortion “may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of...

(Congress shall have the power: ) "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;" — Article 1, Section 8, United States Constitution Take a good, long look at the above "commerce clause," my fellow Americans. As far as the American left is concerned, it is the vehicle by which tyranny can imposed on the citizenry of the United States. Too strong a contention? Not at all. Our Democratically- controlled Congress has made it clear that "commerce" is a term so flexible it can be "regulated" — even when it literally doesn't exist....

59-41 That’s all you need to know regarding the Elena Kagan confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Those are the numbers by which she most likely will be confirmed, unless of course some Republican Senator doesn’t get it and decides to cast his or her vote with Democrats to confirm her. (see article) By “doesn’t get it,” I’m referring to why Kagan was selected by president Soetoro. Kagan is the Progressive’s attempt to politicize the Supreme Court. If you haven’t noticed by now Barry Hussein Soetoro and Democrats have politicized everything—every aspect of government and...