Elena Kagan news: Sen. Jeff Sessions calls Kagan a ‘dangerous’ nominee
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 28, 2010; 6:27 PM
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan picked up more GOP backing Wednesday in her drive toward near-certain confirmation next week, even as a top Republican lashed out at her as “dangerous.”
(Photos: Elena Kagan’ confirmation hearing and role in the Clinton administration)
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, warned senators in unusually dire terms against voting for President Barack Obama’s choice, saying, “Be careful about it, because I’m afraid that we have a dangerous, progressive, political-type nominee.”
Sessions’ words of caution - he said they were primarily directed toward Democrats - came just hours after Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican to say she would break with her party to vote for Kagan, who’s in line to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens.
Democrats already have more than enough votes to confirm her.
(Explore the Washington Post Kagan vote counter to see how close Elena Kagan is to being confirmed)
In a statement, Snowe said Kagan had met her standard for a justice, “with the strong intellect, respect for the rule of law, and understanding of the important but limited role of the Supreme Court that I believe is required.” She said endorsements from leading lawyers, including prominent conservatives, had persuaded her that Kagan had the judicial temperament for the job.
Sessions, however, quoted Obama allies describing Kagan as someone who shares his political views, and argued she would be a liberal rubber stamp for Obama’s policies.
“I don’t think the American people are going to hold harmless those who vote to impose a legal progressive, activist legislator from the bench upon them,” Sessions said.
(Sort through political documents related to Elena Kagan’s career)
Republicans are expected to oppose Kagan, but they have shown no inclination to mount a filibuster to block her confirmation vote. That leaves opponents with little recourse, other than to try to pressure Democrats from conservative states to oppose her based on her stances on cultural issues that motivate their constituents.
For instance, the National Rifle Association is opposing Kagan, calling her hostile to gun rights and telling senators it will punish them in its candidate ratings for supporting her.
There’s no evidence that the tactic is working, however. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who has an “A” rating from the NRA and hails from a state where voters cherish gun rights, said the group’s rating is “part of the equation” but that he would make his own judgment on Kagan.
Begich, who said he hasn’t decided how to vote, said this week that Kagan acknowledges recent Supreme Court rulings recognizing a personal right to own a gun as “precedent-setting, and that’s important to me.”
Snowe also said it was “critical” that Kagan during her confirmation hearings called the gun rulings “settled law” to be applied in the future.
Kagan, the 50-year-old former Harvard Law School dean, has served as Obama’s solicitor general. Snowe is one of seven Republicans who backed her last year for that post. Three of them - Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Jon Kyl of Arizona - have said they will oppose her for the Supreme Court, while another three - Maine Sens. Snowe and Susan Collins and Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar - have announced plans to back her.
The last of the seven, retiring Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, has yet to announce his plans.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has also said he will support Kagan. All four GOP senators who have said they will back Kagan so far also voted for Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
This is the same old, same old talk from republican senators.
Trust me, she will be confirmed.
Sometimes I know even know why they have these hearings. In the end, they all get confirmed.
his is the same old, same old talk from republican senators.
Trust me, she will be confirmed.
Sometimes I don’t even know why they have these hearings. In the end, they all get confirmed.
The first link discusses Kagan’s actual “rewording” (illegal) of the American College of Ob-Gyn doctors statement regard their opinion about partial-birth abortion…The second two links discusses Kagan’s support of Shariah Law Studies as Dean of Harvard University.
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“Klayman (founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch USA) told WND he believes Kagan’s behind-the-scenes work constitutes “conspiracy to defraud the Supreme Court,” and he intends to take the evidence that has been compiled by the pro-life groups to file a complaint before the clerk’s office of the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to have Kagan disbarred as a practicing lawyer in front of the Supreme Court.”
(Make sure to click this phrase within the article for PDF evidence):
the evidence that has been compiled by the pro-life groups to
Papers prepped to disbar Elena Kagan
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=184317
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Elena Kagan’s Work to Make Constitutions More Shariah-Compliant
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/07/19/elena-kagans-work-to-make-constitutions-more-shariah-compliant/#more-7606
“Thanks to the work of the Center for Security Policy Director Frank Gaffney and the writing of Andrew McCarthy of the National Review Institute, there has emerged a compelling reason to vote against Kagan’s confirmation as a Supreme Court justice: Her support for Shariah Law while she was dean of the Harvard Law School.”
http://townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/07/21/kagan_promoted_shariah_law_at_harvard/print?showfull=true
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“We the People” do not want Shariah Law in America!!
We are mostly Christians not Muslims …..Why should their backward laws be imposed on our soil??
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