SCOTUS nominee to be Elena Kagan

May 10, 2010 04:38


Elena Kagan’s most notable foray into public life was kicking military recruiters off of Harvard’s campus

By Jonathan StrongThe Daily Caller

Elena Kagan’s most notable foray into public life was kicking military recruiters off of Harvard’s campus.

President Obama’s latest choice for the Supreme Court, has held a number of high-profile jobs over the years, but she has left a relatively thin paper trail, with one major exception. As the dean of Harvard’s law school, Kagan fought to bar military recruiters from the university’s campus. Her reasoning? Even with two wars in progress, she contended, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should disqualify the US military from having any association with the school. “I abhor the military’s discriminatory recruitment policy,” she said, describing it as a “moral injustice of the first order.”

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