Elena Kagan might be a nice person but her presence on the Supreme Court will serve to further solidify and perpetuate the ranks of the Liberal wing of the Supreme Court replacing a 90 year old justice with one who at fifty years old could serve on the court for decades to come.
Face the inevitable, Elena Kagan will be confirmed. No matter how radical some of her positions are, there is no smoking gun that will persuade enough Senators to block confirmation. So once again we see the confirmation ritual played out where members of her party throw her a bunch of hugs and kisses disguised as questions while the Republicans attempt to get her to state for the record her stance on red meat issues which she has been well-prepared for dealing with and skillfully replies with friendly non-answers. The exercise serves as much as an opportunity for Senators to enjoy their free television time on cable news and CSPAN to preach to their choir adding little more than a lot of political hot air to the debate.
There’s plenty about Kagan’s background between her roles with both the Clinton and Obama administration and her tenure at Harvard to raise concern. Among other things, she helped the Clinton administration support late term abortion. She identified the National Rifle Association as a “bad guy” organization along with the Ku Lux Klan. As Dean of Harvard Law School, she attempted to keep military recruiters off campus for their alleged discrimination against homosexuals based on her perception of “Don’t aks, don’t tell.” She wrote: “This action causes me deep distress. I abhor the military's discriminatory recruitment policy.” Between her service as White House Counsel for Bill Clinton and Solicitor General in the Obama regime, she has been part of the policy making inner circle where all indications are her roll was consistent and uniformly far left oriented.
While they are engaged in the confirmation ritual whose results are already known, all the Democrats on the judiciary committee will vote for her while perhaps a Republican or two will extend a conciliatory vote, at least they’re not hard at work on idiotic environmental climate taxes or other ways to dig the country deeper into to a more debt.
There’s got to be a better way, but anything that keeps the Democrats from advancing their agenda is a good thing.
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