...and of course the fat hairy Harvard bulldyke gets teh job.

[SuuT]

Obama to name Elena Kagan to Supreme Court:

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, positioning the court to have three female justices for the first time, NBC News reported late Sunday. An announcement is planned for 10 a.m. ET at the White House on Monday.

Kagan, 50, is known as sharp and politically savvy and has enjoyed a blazing legal career. She was the first female dean of Harvard Law School, first woman to serve as the top Supreme Court lawyer for any administration, and now first in Obama's mind to succeed liberal Justice John Paul Stevens.

Kagan would be the youngest justice on the court, which would give her the opportunity to extend Obama's legacy for a generation. She would also bring some fresh blood to the court's liberal wing in replacing the 90-year-old Stevens.

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Obama to name Elena Kagan to Supreme Court:



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Oh my God, that appointment was totally unexpected!

[Treffie]

So what's the problem? Is she Jewish?

[SuuT]

So what's the problem? Is she Jewish?

Yes. But, the far more interesting thing is that (to the best of my knowledge) she's never sat as a judge.


And now she's going to be a Supreme Court Justice.




It's the formula of how these appointments are made that is ridiculous.

[Treffie]

Yes. But, the far more interesting thing is that (to the best of my knowledge) she's never sat as a judge.

Hmmm, it does seem a bit odd, but then again with her credentials, I doubt that she'll have any difficulty doing the job.

Kagan, 50, is known as sharp and politically savvy and has enjoyed a blazing legal career. She was the first female dean of Harvard Law School, first woman to serve as the top Supreme Court lawyer for any administration

[SuuT]

Hmmm, it does seem a bit odd, but then again with her credentials, I doubt that she'll have any difficulty doing the job.

That's like saying that a professor of Business Administration who has never administered a business would do 'just as good a job' as one who has for a time equal in length to the tenure of the professor. <--- Seriously uphill argument, but I suppose that it can be made.

[Eldritch]

Appointing willess mediocrities as puppets for key positions. A textbook move.

Here's an article that explains how her apparent weaknesses are actually strenghts, btw.

[Electronic God-Man]

I was going to ask if my Jewdar was correct, but I see that it is.

Kagan was born in New York City, the middle of three children of Gloria Gittelman Kagan and Robert Kagan. After graduating from Hunter College High School in 1977, Kagan earned a A.B. in history from Princeton University, summa cum laude, in 1981. At Princeton, she wrote a senior thesis under historian Sean Wilentz titled "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933" She was also the editorial chair of the Daily Princetonian.

She would also be the eighth Jewish justice in United States history and the third on the current bench.

LOL. Fuck America.

[Electronic God-Man]

[Treffie]

Oh noez, Jewish and lesbian - God bless America