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| Young Elena Kagan: Hoping For A "More Leftist Left" |
| 2010-05-10 |
| Another hit from the Elena Kagan archive: an article she wrote for the Daily Princetonian a week after Ronald Reagan's victory in the 1980 election. The final graph of that piece contains her hope that the 1984 election will bring in a "more leftist left" than the Carter administration: |
| Posted by:ed |
| #5 rj, she's supposed to be a Souter special - not too liberal, no long career of judicial opinions or argument. Since the Obama administration is... well, the usual clatch of incompetent Chicago wannabes, they picked someone with a habit of writing damned stupid things. It didn't slow them down too much when it was Sotomayor mouthing off about her racist superiority complexes, so who's to say it'll trip them up this time? To be honest, I don't know whether Kagan's worth the fight. It's going to be a leftist-activist, what with a leftist-activist administration replacing a liberal-activist justice. Unless they have footage of her naked, offering up aborted babies as burnt offerings to Ba'al upon an impromptu altar erected upon on the front steps of Langdell Hall by a chanting coven of lunatics, why is it worth it? I'm afraid this is just an opportunity for the social conservatives and the liberal wedge-issue weasels to change the subject of debate. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-05-10 21:05 |
| #4 Isn't it funny how the least experienced President has picked he least experienced Supreme Court Nominee. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-05-10 18:03 |
| #3 She wouldn't be more conservative than Ford & 41's, but she might often be more libertarian. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-05-10 16:53 |
| #2 I wrote a few, not a lot, similarly stupid papers at one of Princeton's rivals about the same time Ms. Kagan was opining on Reagan. I didn't really mean it then, and certainly grew up fairly quickly after graduation. Well see if she has as well. As for RJ's list, I expect she's confirmed without any hullaballoo, but the GOP will take every chance to embarrass democratic party judicial philosophy (if it can be called as much), but not really go after her personally. Sen. McConnell is impressively crafty, and I think the GOP may come out of this very well. If the dems give her the Miers treatment, they only make a mess of themselves. She doesn't seem crazy or defective in any way, and aside from her age (she'll be there forever) she's probably as good as can be expected from this POTUS. The hilarity factor is that she'll be more conservative than most of Ford and Bush senior's selections. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-05-10 16:30 |
| #1 When Bush put up Harriet Meyer I got the impression he was putting her up to draw fire so that when he withdrew the nomination and put up another candidate the second one would go through a lot easier. In effect that's how it worked, so if it was planned ahead of time or not is irrelevant as people can learn from the events either way. That is what I think Elana Kagan is. Yes Obama would probably like her on the court but he doesn't expect she would make it through. By putting her up he creates three possibilities (1) the Republicans fillibuster her and become the party of "no" (2) the Democrats can shoot her down after a lot of debate and appear non-partisan prior to the 2010 elections and also ease the way for the next candidate (3) she goes through and he looks more powerful than ever. I suspect (2) as you might guess from my introductory paragraph but the Democrats are set up to win with any of the outcomes if the Republicans aren't careful. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-05-10 14:52 |