Kagan's Principles

By Douglas V. Gibbs

President Obama has nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. She has no experience as a judge, of which the U.S. Constitution does not require any, and she has a life that is surrounded with a lot of questions.

Character and principles are what's important to me, and it seems Ms. Kagan lacks both.

My biggest complaint about Elena Kagan is not her hard left stances on just about every issue, or the fact that she is a 50 year old woman that is not married, which leads folks to believe she is gay (and she may be a lesbian, she hasn't come right out and said it to my understanding). My biggest concern is that as far as I can see she is, for the most part, a clone of Barack Obama, steeped in radicalism determined to change America into a failed socialist state that sets aside all of its past values and principles - but the main extreme media is painting her as some kind of moderate centrist instead.

Are the people of the press that stupid? Or are they indeed in on a massive plot to deceive the people so yet another socialist extremist can join the ranks of the U.S. Government?

Principles are what I am after. People will fail you, but principles are the bedrock that America was forged upon. Problem is, Kagan's principles are hardly in line with the constitutional intent of America's Founding Fathers.

Elena Kagan is a liberal activist who hates the military, despises America's prosperity as a capitalist nation, and has only (to my knowledge) said one sound thing in regards to the U.S. Constitution (You know, that document that the Supreme Court is supposed to be all about?).

As the Dean of the Harvard School of Law, Kagan barred military recruiters from campus during a time of war. Why would she do such a thing? Apparently, Kagan was upset over the Clinton Administration's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding homosexuals in the military. But, over that policy, while she was willing to have nothing to do with the military, she had no problem accepting a position in the Clinton Administration.

In other words, she hates the military, not her fellow liberal operatives, despite what they do that should have bothered her. That means that though she claims her principles are in support of homosexuals being allowed to serve openly in the military, her alliance to the party is more important than her principles.

To add to the confusion, despite her alleged kinship with the gay agenda, she said in a questionnaire: "There is no constitutional right to same-sex marriage."

Hmmmm, maybe there is some hope for this woman, yet.

As for Kagan's reason to keep military recruiters off of the Harvard Campus, Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy may not be the entire reason. After all, Harvard has been keeping the military off campus since 1969, and the "gay" issue may have just been an excuse to continue that long practiced indiscretion.

Which begs one to ask, "Was Kagan's decision to keep the military off campus one of ideology? Or of keeping in tradition of the school's past positions?"

When it comes to the Constitution, despite Kagan's statement about gay marriage, it turns out Kagan regards the U.S. Constitution with the same attitude as most liberals - as a fluid document that can be bent and twisted to serve their own agenda.

In her 1993 article "Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V," for the University of Chicago Law Review, Kagan writes: "I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the uncoerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation."

Is that Kagan's way of saying that the First Amendment applies to some, but not to others? Is Free Speech something she feels the government should dictate? Ought some speech be freer than other speech?

Any of Obama's nominees would have a rough ride through the nomination process, considering the GOP's stance against anything "Obama," but the feeling put out by the press that Kagan is one of Obama's more moderate possible choices makes one wonder, as radical as Kagan is, does that mean Obama could have picked someone even more extreme than Kagan?

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Obama's Supreme Court Pick Imminent; Kagan the Favorite - NewsMax

Kagan nomination riles both sides of the aisle - Washington Post

Do Ask, Do Tell - The American Spectator

Kagan and the Military - Time

Vital Questions for Kagan - Washington Examiner

Is Elena Kagan from the Real World - Politico

Supreme Irony: Kagan Nomination Ends Gay Marriage Hopes - Legal Insurrection

Kagan: Another radical masquerading as a moderate? - Examiner, Los Angeles

Kagan: Some speech can be 'disappeared' - World Net Daily

Kagan & the Court: Elitist Entitlement - Letter from the Capitol