KAGAN – NEVER TRIED A CASE
SUPREME COURT NOMINEE HAS NEVER TRIED A CASE
Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court hearings begin as this newsletter goes to press.
Kagan has no experience as a judge and has never tried a single case. The May 14th Eagle Forum.org outlines several of the facts known about Kagan: 1) She joined a brief submitted to the Supreme Court that attempted to obtain a constitutional right for schools to exclude military recruiters. That failed 8-0, but Harvard University, where she served as Dean of the Law School, continues to ban recruiters to this day. 2) In a hearing before the Judiciary Committee, she declared her support for using foreign law to interpret the U.S. Constitution, and 3) Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life says that “Elena Kagan has strong ties to abortion-advocacy organizations and expressed admiration for activist judges who have worked to advance social policy rather than to impartially interpret the law.”
The June 25th news@lifeissues.org from Life Issues Institute says, “There’s no doubt that Elena Kagan is a liberal activist intent on pushing aside the U.S. Constitution in favor of a radical social agenda. She was, after all, nominated by the most pro-abortion president in the history of our nation.”
The mutual admiration between Kagan and the President is observed by noting that at a 2005 Harvard Law School Luncheon she lavished praise on then-Senator Obama. She described his speech at the 2004 Democratic national Convention. “He opened his mouth, said a few words and the place was mesmerized. You could of (her quote) heard a pin drop. In part that is because of all the rock star qualities he has: the eloquence, the magnetism, the great looks, the brilliance.” Kagan called Obama a “hero”.
In a June 4th email from Focus on the Family, Tom Minnery states that “We are convinced that her appointment poses a serious threat to our faith, family and freedoms.”
