Obama to nominate Kagan to Supreme Court

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gsvol said:
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All I can say is....YouTube - Aerosmith - Dude Looks Like A Lady (Studio Version + Lyrics)
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Historically it was not unusual to have no previous bench experience at all. Justice Powell was a past president of the American Bar Association, which means he had political skills. Frankfurter and Douglas were not judges. Earl Warren had been governor of California.

It bothers me more that everyone will either be from Harvard or Yale and are either Catholic or Jewish
 
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gsvol said:
5) Could pass for the less attractive brother of the guy from “The King of Queens” TV show. (that's being generous.)
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I believe you are referring to Danny, which is Doug's cousin. Either that or Spence, the friend (Danny's roommate). She could pass for either one. Good show (and I'm typically not a fan a shows that make husbands look like morons -see "Everybody Loves Raymond").
 
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joevol320 said:
how is citizens united v fec conservative activism? that's a matter of free speach. nothing activist about that
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It's justices disregarding judicial precedent and the legislated law of the land.

How else can one define activism?
 
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Well given this trend, the third ugliest woman in the country is hoping another judge retires.
 
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utvolpj said:
just had an image of Chris Farley playing her on SNL and visiting Janet Reno's dance party. I know, it's terrible...
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Its terribly funny. I wish he was still alive that skit would be hilarious.
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I don't have much issue with her having no experience as a judge. Not only did she clerk for judges, but we've had plenty of judges without judicial experience before joining the supreme court (rehnquist, black, and brandeis to name a few). That being said, from what I've found, she does seem to be fairly liberal. For example, in a recent NYTimes article it was noted that:

She had spent the summer of 1980 working to elect a liberal Democrat, Liz Holtzman, to the Senate. On Election Night, she drowned her sorrow in vodka and tonic as Ronald Reagan took the White House and Ms. Holtzman lost to “an ultraconservative machine politician,” she wrote, named Alfonse D’Amato.

“Where I grew up — on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — nobody ever admitted to voting for Republicans,” Ms. Kagan wrote, in a kind of Democrat’s lament. She described the Manhattan of her childhood, where those who won office were “real Democrats — not the closet Republicans that one sees so often these days but men and women committed to liberal principles and motivated by the ideal of an affirmative and compassionate government.”
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Kagan?s Climb Is Marked by Confidence and Canniness - Biography - NYTimes.com

Moreover, in her paper Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V., she seems to be seeking to find a constitutional way to restrict the sorts of speech that she personally finds offensive.

Other than that, she seems to have kept her political views tight to her chest (of course, I'm sure more information will come out soon). I tend to think that she was chosen by Obama, in part, because of this. Her lack of paper trail would make her a very confirmable candidate.
 
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paul1454 said:
I don't have much issue with her having no experience as a judge. Not only did she clerk for judges, but we've had plenty of judges without judicial experience before joining the supreme court (rehnquist, black, and brandeis to name a few). That being said, from what I've found, she does seem to be fairly liberal. For example, in a recent NYTimes article it was noted that:



Kagan?s Climb Is Marked by Confidence and Canniness - Biography - NYTimes.com

Moreover, in her paper Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V., she seems to be seeking to find a constitutional way to restrict the sorts of speech that she personally finds offensive.

Other than that, she seems to have kept her political views tight to her chest (of course, I'm sure more information will come out soon). I tend to think that she was chosen by Obama, in part, because of this. Her lack of paper trail would make her a very confirmable candidate.
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If the Republicans don't block her appointment, I'll not ever vote for another Republican.

“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,”
Elana Kagan

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She has no judicial experience sitting at the bench, at the time of her appointment as solicitor general she had no experience advocating before the supreme court or even before an appelate court but received 90 votes in the senate conformation. That is reminiscent of Ruth Bader-Ginsberg, the ACLU commie byatch getting 97 votes to be on the SCOTUS, what the hell is the Republican Party trying to sell us???

We all know now (post Obambi) the Democrat Party is selling communism but just what is the Republican party about these days??

Probing the Mystery of Elena Kagan’s Beliefs - Ed Whelan - Bench Memos on National Review Online
 
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gsvol said:
If the Republicans don't block her appointment, I'll not ever vote for another Republican.

“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,”
Elana Kagan

lesbians.jpg


She has no judicial experience sitting at the bench, at the time of her appointment as solicitor general she had no experience advocating before the supreme court or even before an appelate court but received 90 votes in the senate conformation. That is reminiscent of Ruth Bader-Ginsberg, the ACLU commie byatch getting 97 votes to be on the SCOTUS, what the hell is the Republican Party trying to sell us???

We all know now (post Obambi) the Democrat Party is selling communism but just what is the Republican party about these days??

Probing the Mystery of Elena Kagan’s Beliefs - Ed Whelan - Bench Memos on National Review Online
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Well get ready to not vote for another Republican, many Rs up there don't have the spine to block her.

The Republican party is being pulled back to conservatism, but it's going to take time.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I don't know anything about her.

Glad to see all of you are keeping an open mind aobut her since you also don't know a thing about her.

Oh, wait. Almost forgot. Since she is nominated by Obama, and you are sworn to do everything in your power to decry every move he makes, even if it makes perfect sense, you are obliged to criticize this selection, as well.

Sorry, almost forgot your knee-jerk anti-Obama at all costs role in the matter. Whew!
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You really said this about an Obama nominee who is an overweight Jewish Lesbian from the Upper West Side and was the Dean of Harvard Law? Are you kidding me? She will make Sotomayor look centrist by comparison.

This works for Obama because he gets his loony left nominee on board with limited trouble due to her lack of a track record.
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BigPapaVol said:
You really said this about an Obama nominee who is an overweight Jewish Lesbian from the Upper West Side and was the Dean of Harvard Law? Are you kidding me? She will make Sotomayor look centrist by comparison.

This works for Obama because he gets his loony left nominee on board with limited trouble due to her lack of a track record.
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Yes, because clearly each of those things is disqualifying to be on the US Supreme Court.

Especially the Harvard Law School part.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yes, because clearly each of those things is disqualifying to be on the US Supreme Court.

Especially the Harvard Law School part.
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I didn't say any of it was disqualifying. You didn't say anything about it. You said that it would be difficult to peg her policy views, even though she worked in Clinton's WH and also fits the description I gave. Please.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
You really said this about an Obama nominee who is an overweight Jewish Lesbian from the Upper West Side and was the Dean of Harvard Law? Are you kidding me? She will make Sotomayor look centrist by comparison.

This works for Obama because he gets his loony left nominee on board with limited trouble due to her lack of a track record.
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in addition to the harvard, jewish, clinton, lesbian angle what really bothers me is she has worked in the private sector for 2 years total and was raised by two teachers. in other words the chances of her having anything, but radical left ideas is zero. of course she and obama are practically carbon copy in this matter. i don't trust anyone who is a career student / teacher / politician. it would be nice to have someone a little more well rounded and worldy rather than someone living in the harvard / new york bubble.
 
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droski said:
in addition to the harvard, jewish, clinton, lesbian angle what really bothers me is she has worked in the private sector for 2 years total and was raised by two teachers. in other words the chances of her having anything, but radical left ideas is zero. of course she and obama are practically carbon copy in this matter. i don't trust anyone who is a career student / teacher / politician. it would be nice to have someone a little more well rounded and worldy rather than someone living in the harvard / new york bubble.
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Truth!
 
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I actually agree that I'd really like to see the nomination of someone who has tried a lot of cases, handled a lot of appeals from those cases, and who has had to deal with the losing and the winning that comes from the real practice of law.
 
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