Posted by
Republiservative on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 4:27:19 PM
Here's a verbatim PSA on the Kagan nomination I've just received in email from Senator Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat and U.S. Senate Assistant Majority Leader; after this verbatim quote, some salient observations follow:
"
Thank
you for sharing with me your concerns about the President's nomination of Elena
Kagan to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. I appreciate
hearing from you.
Elena
Kagan is a graduate of Harvard Law School. She has legal experience in private
practice, a record of government service, and a reputation as one of the
leading legal scholars in the country. She most recently served as Solicitor
General, the nation's top lawyer.
Solicitor
General Kagan practiced law as an associate at a Washington, D.C., law firm,
from 1989 to 1991, and held several management positions in the Clinton
Administration. From 1995 to 1999, she served as Associate White House Counsel
to the President, Deputy Assistant to the President
for Domestic Policy, and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Kagan
also clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Solicitor
General Kagan began her academic career as a professor of law at the
University of Chicago in 1991. After serving in government, she became
a professor at Harvard Law School and served as the school's dean from
2003 until she became Solicitor
General. She has won praise and recognition from many in the law
profession,
including the American Bar Association, for her intricate knowledge of
the law.
Critics
of her nomination have pointed to her lack of experience as a judge as a reason
she should not be confirmed. While it is true that all of the current justices
were judges prior to being nominated to the Court, many of the best known
justices in history had no prior judicial experience, including Justices Rehnquist,
Douglas, and Frankfurter. In fact, after Kagan's nomination was announced,
Justice Scalia, one of the Court's most conservative members, said, "I am happy
to see that this latest nominee is not a federal judge and not a judge at all."
Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor also brushed aside this critism.
Some
critics also believe that Solicitor General Kagan would be a radical activist
as a Supreme Court Justice. Former Bush judicial nominee Miguel Estrada does
not agree. In his letter to the committee, Mr. Estrada said Kagan is
"extremely qualified" and her rulings would fall "well within the mainstream of
current legal thought." He urged the Senate to "confirm her nomination without
delay."
The
Kagan nomination is supported by a wide variety of groups and organizations.
Her confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin on June 28th.
As
a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I look forward to the opportunity
to consider this nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Thank you
again for your message. Please feel free to keep in touch." [End Of Citation]
So this nominee has no judicial experience, but a bunch of connected people and those dependent on Congressional goodwill/Presidential discretionary spending for their income just adore a person, these people are far more superior in intellect and know-how just by going to college then sniffing the fumes of REAL practioners, and only we lilliputians point to things like Josef Goebbels having had a 1921 degree from Berlin University, government experience, and so on, before revealing himself fully thanks to the comraderie he had with the Third Reich.
In other words, for all the PSA puffery, all Senator Durbin has represented through same is his that his and any colleagues' belief that it's better for ANY official to show true colors first after taking office and then let them do as they please without let or hindrance because they're "experts in their fields, who are even less-able legislators to criticize"...including if too late it's discovered they have zeal for Scalia's "I'll rubberstamp ANY foreign law for my buddies, even if Stalin or Hitler wrote it" way of side-stepping the worth of the USA Constitution and its purposes and intents.