What is one to think? Anyone who spends 5 minutes researching the background of Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, Barack Obama’s nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, can discover that Elena Kagan is not a person of good character. Forget for the moment about political ideals and whether she does or does not emulate the ideals of Barack Obama or that she may not even be well qualified for the job. The woman has been involved in unlawful and unethical practices that cast a very dark shadow on her character and yet both Maine Senators, Snowe and Collins, refer to Kagan as a woman of “integrity”.
Kagan participated in and whitewashed unethical ghostwriting and plagiarizing campaigns while Dean of Harvard Law School, as well as a cover up, and inserted her own false information into a report from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) concerning partial birth abortions, that changed the entire view on the practice.
About her decision to vote for Kagan’s appointment, Sen. Collins said she has, “the intellect, experience, temperament and integrity” to serve as Supreme Court Justice. Yesterday, the other Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, said she too would vote to confirm Kagan and gave similar reasons for that decision saying, “with the strong intellect, respect for the rule of law, and understanding of the important but limited role of the Supreme Court that I believe is required.”
As with anyone eager to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court Justice, we must question even their ability to make rational judgments on others character. Who could look at Kagan’s record and believe she was a person of “integrity” or “respect for the law”, when she has thumbed her nose at the law and worked to cover it up.
Have our own ethics and moral guidelines become so clouded that actions such as those of Elena Kagan should be overlooked? That is certainly one conclusion I would have to make, unless, of course, Snowe and Collins are no different than the other 98 U.S. Senators who fail at their jobs miserably and haven’t spent anytime at all gathering facts about Elena Kagan.
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions yesterday made comments attacking Kagan’s nomination saying it would be a “dangerous” appointment. The video (below) is 3:21 long and not once does Sen. Sessions refer to any specific reasons she would be a “dangerous” appointment other than he thinks she is cast in the mold of Barack Obama and specifically hand selected by the President for that purpose. He may be right but why not take the opportunity while addressing the rest of the Senate and specifically lay out all the unethical and law breaking reasons she would be a “dangerous” appointment? Yet, another example of a U.S. Senator failing his constituency by not speaking out with all the facts.
What’s to hide?
Tom Remington
