Post Tagged with: "Elena Kagan"

July 1, 2010 03:26

The Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, and Guns

by Ken Klukowski – Kagan wrote to Justice Marshall that, “I’m not sympathetic” to his belief that the Second Amendment is an individual right. When the McDonald case was argued before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Kagan refused to file a brief either way to express the opinion of the United States government on this monumentally-important case.

June 28, 2010 05:29

Republicans Won’t Rule Out Filibuster of Kagan Over Liberalism, Inexperence

Pointing out that Elena Kagan has the least amount of judicial experience of any Supreme Court nominee in the last 50 years, Sen. Jeff Sessions and other leading Republicans are not ruling out a Senate filibuster to block the nomination.

June 24, 2010 04:03

Supreme Court nominee Kagan and Sharia Law

Kagan remained silent when a Saudi donor put up $20 million dollars to establish a Center for Islamic Studies that cleared the way for the promotion of Sharia Law – a Muslim theology that many believe embraces repression and sexism.

June 23, 2010 05:18

Kagan Unqualified To Be on Court – Rep. Ted Poe

The new Supreme Court pick, Elena Kagan, has never been a judge. She’s never seen a courtroom from the bench. She’s never had a judge’s responsibilities. Elena Kagan has never instructed a jury or ruled on a point of law—any point of law. She’s never tried a criminal case, a civil case, or even a traffic case. She has not decided even one constitutional issue.

June 11, 2010 06:22

Kyl, Sessions: Kagan’s Politics Drive Her Legal Decisions

Two senior Republican senators criticized Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Thursday for memos she wrote as a young law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, saying the papers suggest she lets politics dictate her legal decisions.

May 24, 2010 04:40

Catholic bishops pull away from civil-rights group ove Kagan’s abortion stance

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights following the latter’s published support for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, who is pro-abortion.

May 14, 2010 07:25

The First Amendment under ‘progressive’ siege

By Wesley Pruden – The Constitution has “evolved” since then, of course, and now the liberal left, led by the Warren Court and its bastard progeny, has discovered all manner of “emanations” and “penumbra,” like an embedded Da Vinci code, that the Constitution doesn’t really mean what the words say it means. What part of “shall” can Mzz Kagan not understand?

May 14, 2010 06:17

Obama judicial doctrine: The leftier the better

As the nation’s attention focuses on Elena Kagan, conservatives must not lose sight of the rest of the judiciary. When it comes to nominees to the federal bench below the Supreme Court level, President Obama has offered up some doozies.

May 14, 2010 06:05

Kagan anti gun rights

There’s more evidence of hostility to gun rights on her part. Now, with the choice of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama is two for two in selecting Supreme Court nominees with an apparent strong hostility to the right of self-defense.

May 14, 2010 05:23

Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument

Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.