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If Patton Oswalt and Janet Reno hooked up and produced a child, Elena Kagan would be the result of that union.
Constitution Is Endangered If Kagan OK'd - IBD - Investors.com
this is a great article on kagan's history. she is very scary.
Kagan filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to declare the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional. The Court, however, unanimously rejected Kagans position.
Also during her tenure as dean at Harvard Law, Kagan co-signed a letter -- along with Harold Koh -- urging the Senate not to adopt an amendment that would have protected the White House from lawsuits filed by foreign terrorists charging that their "constitutional rights" had been violated by American law-enforcement and intelligence authorities.
In 2006, Kagan instituted three new courses to the required curriculum at Harvard Law. One of these courses focuses on public international law; another deals with international economic law and multinational financial transactions; the third is a comparative law class whose purpose is to introduce students to one or more legal systems outside our own, to the borrowing and transmission of legal ideas across borders, and to a variety of approaches to substantive and procedural law that are rooted in distinct cultures and traditions.
While adding these three required courses, Kagan eliminated a requirement for students to take at least one constitutional law class at any time during their legal education.
On a somewhat related note, I'm curious as to the basis for the claim that the supreme court should not allow partial birth abortions. Certainly, I do no support them, but I'd love to hear the thoughts of others that think allowing them is somehow a hit on the SCOTUS.
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On May 29, the president's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, filed a brief arguing that it would be "unwarranted" for the Supreme Court to even hear cases brought by the 9/11 families charging that five Saudi princes knowingly and intentionally provided financial support to al Qaeda waging war on America. By urging the high court to not review lower court decisions dismissing these cases, the Obama Administration took the side of the Saudi princes over thousands of family members and survivors of the 9/11 attacks seeking justice and accountability in U.S. courts.
"This is a betrayal of our fundamentally American right to have our day in court," said Mike Low of Batesville, Ark., father of Sara Low, an American Airlines flight attendant who died on board Flight 11. "It sacrifices the principles of justice, transparency, accountability and security, which our case embodies, in order to accommodate the political pleadings of a foreign government on behalf of a handful of members of its monarchy."
"With this filing, the Obama Administration has constructed a convoluted legal rationale to justify a political decision to curry favor with the Saudi royal family," said Ron Motley, counsel for the 9/11 families. "However, the legal straw house they built collapses with the faintest breeze of logic, legal analysis, or common sense."
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Motley said he was especially shocked that the solicitor general justified not holding foreign officials who give money to the 9/11 terrorists to account in an American court by repeating the same error made by the late District Judge Richard Conway Casey and the Second Circuit when they ruled plaintiffs' well-pleaded allegations were "inadequa[te]" and "conclusory" to show the Princes knew that they were funneling money to al Qaeda. "This is utter nonsense," Motley said, noting the specific detail of the allegations made, all of which allegedly show that the princes gave money to al Qaeda waging declared jihad on America, knowing that al Qaeda was targeting death and destruction on America.(9)
"What the solicitor general and the lower courts ignore is that the plaintiffs brought this suit to hold the defendants -- a handful of royals, other financiers, bin Laden, al Qaeda, and certain charities, banks and other organizations they own and control -- responsible for this insidious form of terrorism which cloaks itself behind the face of royal state titles and legitimacy," Motley said.
Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, each wrote a dissent.
On a somewhat related note, I'm curious as to the basis for the claim that the supreme court should not allow partial birth abortions. Certainly, I do no support them, but I'd love to hear the thoughts of others that think allowing them is somehow a hit on the SCOTUS.
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After seeing her picture I am completely in agreement for late term and even after term abortions of such ugly women!
She's there to make Rosie and Whoopie look better.
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Of course Helen Thomas is in a leagure of her own with no competition except possibly Janet Reno but now Janet Napolitano and Sonia Sotomayor might fit nicely into the category of which you speak.
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All this makes me wonder, do you think Barry might have a thing against straight women??
And that reminds me of yet another one of Barry's friends that definately fits both categories.
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I wish you hadn't posted that Rockydoc, you got me to thinking and now I'm thinking we might not have won the cold war after all. :no:
No Christina Romer? That pig faced person in charge of getting the economy going!!
As we have seen with Van Jones, who has been rehired by CAP, it is today fashionable in left-wing or "progressive" circles to be a socialist and even communist revolutionary. This wasn't always the case.
Jones resigned his White House job after the scrutiny into his Marxist background and membership in STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) was threatening to implicate Obama and Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett in his hiring. It recently came out that Obama favored Jarrett for the U.S. Senate seat he vacated after his election to the presidency.
The open collaboration with Jones by CAP represents a sharp break with the anti-communist liberals, once a major force in the progressive movement and the Democratic Party, who had rejected any ties or associations with supporters of totalitarianism and communist dictatorships.