Thinking About … Elena Kagan

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Thinking About … Elena Kagan

  • wade sears

    i was disappointed by the link to the slate article with the duel meaning ‘QB who memorized the playbook’. you could have been positive and continued the metaphor and shown a photo of tom brady.(never started in college, drafted sixth round; 3 super bowl rings!)

  • helen day

    What we really need on the Supreme Court is an oboist – Diane Wood.

    And oh, BTW, got some Tito’s this weekend! Mother’s Day. (Who says Mother’s Day isn’t a drinking holiday?)

  • Eduardo

    Why would you put a person with no experience in a position that will require making decisions that will forever affect the country? It makes no sense whatsoever, but what do you expect from a president who had very little political experience but is now running the country. Hopefully they don’t pass her nomination and another person is nominated.

  • http://itsthelaurenshow.com Lauren No_Last_Name

    I don’t know anything about her politics, but Elena Kagan looks like Nathan Lane at the end of Birdcage when he took his wig off and still had on his makeup & pearls.

  • Bob

    i’m glad i’m not the only one that thought she looks like jon lovitz

  • Kristy

    I thought Elena Kagan was a good choice and i hope she is confirmed, 3 woman justices that would be sweet! and you are all jerks for being so superficial about her looks…

  • Sengye

    I surmise that the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell bit on the campus of Harvard Law School
    while she was the Dean stems from the fact that she appears to be a little heavy in the loafers..

  • chris

    the qb comparison is insipid. the idea of “no experience” is a sham. the supreme court is not about day-to-day court decisions, in point of fact it doesn’t even operate like a typical american courtroom or even the advanced appellate courts. judges who have sat for a decade and ascend to the court are in many ways as “inexperienced” as kagan’s detractors would claim she is. the court is and has always been more a theoretical protectorate than a body tasked with adjudicating a caseload, and in that regard, a former dean of harvard law school is an ideal nominee.

  • Jake

    Jon Lovitz? Nathan Lane?

    It’s Kevin James people. Twins from different mothers.

    And no one knows anything about her politics because she’s not published anything political, and having never sat the bench, there’s no record to look at either. I suppose that it could be positive or negative that there is no clear indicator of her stand on any major issue that could come before the court… Our assumption is that she’ll be more liberal leaning, but the one thing she’s consistently shown is that she’ll go with the option that least offends those who are politically empowered.

    Oh, and Wade – Tom Brady had run hundreds of plays in a real life game before ever winning those rings or being the MVP. Ms. Kagan has not.

  • Danson

    Alright, listen! Over HALF of the United States Supreme Court justices have not sat as a justice at ANY court. This is not something brand new. Read your history!!!!!!!

  • Sophia

    Congratulations on judging a woman by the only qualification that’s important: her looks. Never mind her brilliant mind, her leadership skills or any of her other major accomplishments.

    All that truly matters is that you don’t think she fits the standard of beauty set by Justices Alito and Rehnquist. Shame on you, you sexist jerks!

  • Bill O’Reilly

    I believe the writer said Kagan would be the first in 38 years who had no judicial experience. That is all. No mention of half or otherwise.

  • ginger

    For those of us old enough to remember the old TV show “The Paper Chase” you should recall the episode where Professor Kingsfield, a Harvard law school professor, was almost nominated to the Supreme Court and there was debate over whether his lack of bench experience was a detriment. Something tells me that Obama was a Paper Chase fan when he was a young man since this is so eerily similar. At least the president on the Paper Chase was wise enough to end up nominating a person with judicial experience instead of classroom experience.

  • Joe

    I don’t like her. Based on 2 facts.
    1) nominated by socialist Obama – can’t be good
    2) looks like a man – (Nathan Lane in The Birdcage is dead on)

  • st

    Joe ,

    are you the brilliant Joe the plumber ?
    You sound just like him .