Plenty of well-known justices had no judicial experience prior to their tenure on the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist being one of them. Conservatives like him don’t they?

Save the air time and the speeches. Though she is completely unqualified, just like Soto Mayor was, she’s a lock. We can’t block her so just stamp it and call it a day.

I’m sure the nomination will be successful, but I think BHO missed a great opportunity to appoint another woman to the SCOTUS.

nutso fast, besides being mean, nasty and miserable you seem to be fixated on everyones sexuality.

You may not like Sotomayor’s politics, but by any objective standard she was qualified for the Supreme Court.

As long as Kagan abides by the “Rule of Law” attitude of SCOTUS…I don’t see an issue.

Additionally, since Robert Byrd has passed away…I think it is a good to revisit the idea of an “Appointment for life”.

Iris, you were the one who asked Rosie O’Donnell “Your face or mine?”

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nutso fast, besides being mean, nasty and miserable you seem to be fixated on everyones sexuality.

Iris, it’s best not feed the trolls, especially one as persistent as notsofast. It just gives them a reason to post again.

Today the Supreme Court came within one vote of throwing out the second amendment. That’s what happens when judges vote based on their own opinions rather than the actual text of the Constitution. For the Left, the Bill of Rights is dispensable whenever it doesn’t match their evolving interpretation (LOL) of the freedoms citizens are granted. And every scrap of evidence suggests that, under Kagan, more of our freedoms will evolve away into thin air.

Here’s a concept: how about putting judges on the court that interpret the law as written, not as they would like it to be written? If this simple standard were applied, Elena Kagan would never get approved to the court.

It isn’t that simple felix. The world has changed a bit since the 18th century. So-called Constitutionalists act like we should apply the law as if it was 1787 instead of 2010.

I don’t know why the Senate Committee is going to go through this dog and pony show. She will get confirmed. I thought the hearings were going to start today, but from what I read it was just all the Senators giving their little speeches, face time for them, not for her.

I wonder if she will get the Alito treatment? I doubt it….she won’t be challenged and she won’t be confronted or insulted. The Committee reserves that treatment for “conservative” nominees.

Were Roberts and Alito really treated differently from Sotomayor? Or does the answer to that depend on one’s political sympathies?

Go back and read the line of questioning that Sen Kennedy chose and you tell me if there was a difference.

Kennedy ripped them both. All but called them racist murderous pigs, course he was the “lion” of the Senate so that’s ok.
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Were Roberts and Alito really treated differently from Sotomayor? Or does the answer to that depend on one’s political sympathies?”

I don’t remember a Senator accusing Sotomeyer of being a sexist why said Senator was a member of a college that excluded women.

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Thursday, January 12, 2006

“Sen. Edward M. Kennedy belongs to a social club for Harvard students and alumni that was evicted from campus nearly 20 years ago after refusing to allow female members.

According to the online membership directory of the Owl Club, the Massachusetts Democrat updated his personal information — including the address of his home, which is in his wife’s name — on Sept. 7.

The club has long been reviled on campus as “sexist” and “elitist” and, in 1984, was booted from the university for violating federal anti-discrimination laws, authored by Mr. Kennedy.

Mr. Kennedy has spent much of this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings interrogating Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. about his ties to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a group that had opposed the admission of women in the early 1970s and is now defunct.”

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Says the lib shill!

And of course Alito did not murder a woman like Ted did.

nutsomush – says the tea-bagging shill!!

Listen, nutsomush (aka tea-bag tyler) spends his days in moms double-wide while she is out shopping for Cheetos and Mountain Dew. You will find that he posts on this site all day along…I mean all day long. Which I wouldn’t ordinarily mind, except its just incoherent drivel. I know how shocking that is.

Basically, what we have here is a tea-bag shut in.

Ted, BFD, the real johnt and Karl: the icons of contemporary lib thought!

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Ted what is it with your tea-bagee fascination? Did beck give you a mushroom stamp or something? Why else would one be sooo fascinated with being a tea-bagee.

Paul, if people don’t like the Constitution as it was written they should pass amendments to change it. That is how it is done in our democracy. The Constitution itself set out methods for people to change the Bill of Rights and other parts of the Constitution. But the Left refuses to respect this time-honored process, and instead uses the Supreme Court to force through policies that they could never pass via the legislature. This is legislating via the bench, and has nothing to do with the role an honorable judge should play in our society.

Just listen to Kagan today defending the right of politicians to ban books. I imagine this is part of your “evolving sense” of the Constitution. But if you Leftists want to get rid of freedom of speech, you should be forced to do it the legal way, via the amendment process. To pack the courts with judges who value their own opinions over rule of law is the single most destructive agenda item in the history of the Democrat party, and we are watching it unfold before our eyes.

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Looks as though HLN is not saying much of anything. So, what’s new?

That said, it looks as though we’re getting another third rate neophyte to serve as a justice on the highest court in the land.