Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, penned an opinion piece that appears in USA Today. He lists his reasons why he opposes her and yet fails to mention anything about the ghostwriting and plagiarizing that Kagan whitewashed while Dean of Harvard Law School.

Sessions rightfully lists the following as reasons to oppose:

1. Kagan places politics above the law.
2. Never been a judge.
3. Never tried a case before a jury.
4. Has only practiced law 3 years.
5. Identifies as heroes the most activist judges in history.
6. Instrumental under Bill Clinton to limit gun rights.
7. Worked to limit laws prohibiting partial-birth abortions.
8. Kicked military recruiters off campus at Harvard Law School.
9. Finds no Constitutional limits on Federal Government power and control.

And not one mention of Kagan’s role in covering up blatant plagiarizing and unethical ghostwriting follies while Dean of Harvard Law School. We know that Sen. Sessions and others were aware of this act.

So what are we left to wonder? Did Sen. Sessions and others bother to even look into the Kagan plagiarism mess? Perhaps they just didn’t want to. Maybe he and his colleagues are too closely tied to Alan Dershowitz, Charles Ogletree and Laurence Tribe, as well as all those connected with Harvard Law School. Is Harvard so powerful they also control the purse strings and ultimately the votes of those on the Judiciary Committee and the U.S. Senate?

Or maybe, like with most Americans these days, lying, cheating and stealing are acceptable personal actions spurned on by the attitude of the ends justifying the means. Perhaps Sen. Sessions just doesn’t think condoning this behavior as being any big deal.

It is obvious that Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has no issue with lying, cheating and stealing as he made this comment after casting the only republican vote in the Committee’s approval of Kagan’s nomination.

“What’s in Elena Kagan’s heart is that of a good person who adopts a philosophy I disagree with,” Graham said. “She will serve this nation honorably, and it would not have been someone I would have chosen, but the person who did choose, President Obama, I think chose wisely.”

Aside from the fact that Sen. Graham’s comment in grounded firmly in ignorance and backside kissing, he refers to Elena Kagan as a “good person” who will serve the nation “honorably”. This woman has not the decency of character to serve any court, let alone that of the U.S. Supreme Court. She covered up serious breeches of the law and with her actions tells us she has little in the way of ethics. Not all of us are perfect but then again not all of us will sit on the Supreme Court.

It is ridiculous to think for a second that this person has any “good” and “honorable” characteristics that would qualify her to serve the highest court in the land.

It appears that it’s business as usual in Washington. The Ruling Class wins out one more time, while the subjects suffer the consequences. Neither Sen. Sessions or any of his minions walking around with “Republican” tattooing could muster up enough gumption to bring into question Kagan’s character. I suppose her nomination was all bought and paid for. Knowing full well Kagan would get the nod makes it easier to act out the part of seriously opposing her nomination…….and for what reason? Why, votes of course. One must cater to every possible special interest whenever possible. That’s what unlimited terms and the Seventeenth Amendment gives us.

We elect these slouchers to go to Washington and they can’t do a simple job of thoroughly investigating a candidate. What good are any of them. Once again, I am extremely disappointed and can only carry my anger and frustration to the polls in November.

Nice work! We will now have the equivalent of a used car salesman running Ford Motor Company, wearing the black robe and sitting on the Bench. Oh, yeah! That’s right. That how we do business in America these days.

Tom Remington

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