President Barack Obama selected Elena Kagan, solicitor general since March 2009, former Harvard Law School Dean, as his nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
She lacks any experience on the bench her greatest short-coming, as well as, her views and position on indefinite detention without a trial battlefield law troubling and worrisome.
And certainly the time is a propitious one for an African-American female to sit on the highest court of the land. However, you want to turn the tortilla both sides equally cooked looks and taste better to the palate. African-American women have not had their time on the U.S. Supreme Court, if not now, when?
Also, Native American or Asian women missing from the court as well and a nominee from these groups would have been an important addition for diversity on the highest bench in the land.
One thumbs up, and one down for Kagan, I stand with the president cautiously on this one. Another view of Kagan on this blog.
Elena Kagan, photo, courtesy Harvard Law School
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