"Social conservatives, on the other hand, already have sought to paint her as “disturbingly out of the mainstream” on some issues, including her opposition to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gay soldiers.
Kagan argued strenuously against the policy, calling it “just flat out wrong.”
She was among law school deans who filed a brief in a Supreme Court case over a federal law that withholds government money from colleges that ban the military from recruiting on campus because of objections to the Pentagon’s policy on gays. The Supreme Court upheld the law unanimously.
Last year, the Senate confirmed Kagan by a vote of 61-31, with only 7 Republicans supporting her. The relatively large number of votes against her cheered some conservative activists, although the margin suggested Kagan would again prevail in a confirmation vote for the Supreme Court.
One academic paper she wrote in the 1990s could be used against her in the confirmation process. Kagan lamented the lack of “seriousness and substance” in confirmation hearings for Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce,” she wrote in the University of Chicago Law Review in 1995.
Asked about this by senators when her nomination as solicitor general was pending, Kagan replied that she is “less convinced than I was in 1995 that substantive discussions of legal issues and views, in the context of nomination hearings, provide the great public benefits.”
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Its not in this whitewash article but she barred military recruiters from Harvard because she disagreed with DADT about gays in the military, until the gov’t cut off the cash.
There are now also no Protestants, the largest denomination in the USA, on the USSC.
A wise Latina and a true leftist nut…all from Barry the Bozo.
