{"id":5197,"date":"2010-05-07T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:12:09","slug":"more-on-elena-kagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5197\/more-on-elena-kagan\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Elena Kagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, President Obama\u2019s penchant for dithering is contagious.\u00a0 Solicitor General and potential Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/apr\/30\/nation\/la-na-court-immigration-20100501 \" target=\"_blank\">failed to respond<\/a> to the Court\u2019s request for a brief describing the Administration\u2019s view on another Arizona immigration law.\u00a0 (This one fines employers for hiring illegal immigrants.)\u00a0 Now that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is fast-tracking an appeal of the Grand Canyon State\u2019s newest attempt to enforce federal law, Kagan very likely won\u2019t be able to ignore taking a side.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, though, the former Dean of Harvard Law School has written or said <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/apr\/30\/nation\/la-na-court-immigration-20100501 \" target=\"_blank\">scarcely anything about law<\/a> in her two decades as a legal academic.\u00a0 From the <em>L.A. Times<\/em> Supreme Court reporter David Savage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She does not have a record as a judge or legal advocate, and she did not write widely on legal topics, potentially making it difficult for Republicans to oppose her if she is nominated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shouldn\u2019t such a statement knock her <em>out <\/em>of contention?<\/p>\n<p>So far, <a href=\"http:\/\/bench.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MjlhZDAwNTQzN2ZiNTA5Yjk5MmZiZWQ0YjFhNjc5ZGE= \" target=\"_blank\">all we know about Kagan<\/a> is that she has establishment Ivy League credentials, holds fashionable elite positions, knows the right people, and is a member of a favored Democratic minority group.\u00a0 Apart from a vague reputation as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/05\/04\/scotus.contenders.kagan\/ \" target=\"_blank\">\u201cconsensus builder\u201d at Harvard<\/a>, she barely has a year under her belt as an appellate advocate.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it a little early to promote her?<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019mon; it\u2019s not like she\u2019s running for President of the United States \u2013 this is important!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, President Obama\u2019s penchant for dithering is contagious.\u00a0 Solicitor General and potential Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has failed to respond to the Court\u2019s request for a brief describing the Administration\u2019s view on another Arizona immigration law.\u00a0 (This one fines employers for hiring illegal immigrants.)\u00a0 Now that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is fast-tracking an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[846,591,487,1248,92],"class_list":["post-5197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arizona","tag-elena-kagan","tag-harvard","tag-immigration-law","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}