By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  March 24th at 02:07 AM  | 

That new blockbuster movie “The Hunger Games” is about a tyrannical government that takes unwilling tribute from an oppressed American people. Sound like the “individual mandate” to you? How many people want to be unwillingly indentured to insurance companies for most of their lives? by State fiat? On that note, see the “Healthcare Games” Twitter account at https://twitter.com/#!/HellthcareGames . It has contact info for you to | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  August 4th at 11:59 PM  | 

     Okay, even I’m getting tired of writing diaries against Kagan’s nomination, but it’s not over yet…and the symbolism of “Judge” Vaughn Walker in sunny San Fran overturning the people’s will to decide on marriage issues today, just before the Senate caves and puts a terrible candidate on our Supreme Court, is just too much to resist writing about.      Again, at least try to get | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 04:55 PM  | 

     Yes, I’m aware that debate has already started on Kagan, as the front page notes. (Hat tip to Brian Darling) However, the situation is so egregious, and extraordinary, that maybe because of what the debate does reveal (the sorriness of Kagan as a potential Justice), and the lack of full debate or information on things like her, uh, possibly coddling plagiarism at Harvard Law…whoops!!) | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  August 1st at 01:48 PM  | 

     Supposedly, Jeff Sessions and others were informed of this all, but: for those who haven’t heard, there is some ugly scuttlebutt about Elena Kagan turning a blind eye to faculty misbehavior at Harvard Law School. Does this make her a good choice for an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?      See the strikingly named “Harvard Plagiarism Archive” by “AuthorSkeptics”, starting with the 7/20/10 entry Script and | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  July 30th at 07:29 PM  | 

     See ABC News, “The Note”, Democrat Ben Nelson Opposes Kagan,      “…In a statement released this evening, Sen. Nelson said, “I have heard concerns from Nebraskans regarding Ms. Kagan, and her lack of a judicial record makes it difficult for me to discount the concerns raised by Nebraskans, or to reach a level of comfort that these concerns are unfounded. Therefore, I will not | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  July 21st at 08:25 PM  | 

     On LifeNews.com at Surgeon General Koop Urges No Vote on Kagan Based on Abortion Manipulation,      “Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has written an extensive letter to members of the Senate calling for a no vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan. The letter focuses attention on the Clinton administration memos Kagan authored showing her attempting to manipulate abortion opinion. … | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  July 20th at 01:51 PM  | 

     Read it and weep. CBS News, Graham Supports Kagan Nomination; Says Obama Chose “Wisely”,      “Claiming to have an obligation to honor President Obama’s choice for a new Supreme Court justice — so long as she is qualified — Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina today joined Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in approving Elena Kagan’s nomination to the court. …      Kagan, | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  July 19th at 08:57 PM  | 

     Well, he’d make a better justice than she would, at least. Thanks to him for putting up Republican Senators Must Filibuster Elena Kagan, spelling issues aside…      Call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121, make it happen.

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  July 15th at 08:28 PM  | 

     Sorry for using THE CAPS in title, but it seems like the sleeping giant known as the 41 Republican U.S. Senators might actually have some life in them. See Human Events, Jeff Sessions on Kagan: “Filibuster Is Not Off The Table”,      “…In an exclusive interview, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said that a ‘filibuster is not off the table,’ but | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  July 14th at 08:25 PM  | 

     Orrin Hatch of Utah isn’t fond of Kagan–but isn’t fond of the judicial filibuster, either. Calling Senator Hatch: could one make an exception in a specially noxious case? What’s the point of being “against” Kagan if she slips through anyway?      Those who believe in God might see some divine providence in Scott Brown’s victory which gives Republicans the weapon of a filibuster, because | Read More »

By: jurispudens (Diary)  |  July 9th at 02:49 PM  | 

     It may be unlikely that Obama will withdraw his nomination of Elena Kagan and recommend General Stanley McChrystal for the Supreme Court seat of John Paul Stevens instead, but one can dream.      McC, like the “other Mac”, Douglas MacArthur, had a sharpish tongue (or his aides did, at least); but then again, McChrystal didn’t plan to bomb China, he was just letting off some | Read More »