Do we want a Socialist on our Supreme Court?

As if there were not already ample evidence to deny Elena Kagan a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, the controversy surrounding the nominee continues to swirl. The controversy casts many doubts on her fitness for the Court.

First, a recap of what we know so far is in order. Ever since her youth she has sought out and surrounded herself with Leftwing extremists in politics. She cried and got drunk when Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980. During her senior year of college she wrote a thesis in which she aligned herself with the Socialist movement and declared that the Left must unite to oppose 'the common, entrenched enemy.'

She became a faculty member of the University of Chicago School of Law where she met Barack Obama, who at the time was a part-time instructor. They formed an immediate bond and friendship based upon their shared Leftwing political ideology.

During her years at Chicago she published an article in the Chicago Law Review that advocated for government restriction of free speech--a clear violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

(AP Photo/Hunter College High School). Kagan as a militant Leftwing extremist during college.


As Dean of the Harvard School of Law she banned the ROTC from the campus--also in violation of federal law--due to military's policy of 'don't ask don't tell' concerning gays, which, by the way, was implemented by her own former boss, President Bill Clinton. She also argued that universities that allowed military recruiters should be barred from receiving federal funds. For that she received a rare unanimous smack-down from the Supreme Court, which ruled 8-0 against her.

But perhaps the biggest bombshell of all is that Chief Justice Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court stated that Kagan attempted to get the Court to embrace a strange new philosophy on the First Amendment that would allow the government to censor TV and radio, the Internet, and posters and pamphlets.

Anyone with a knowledge of history knows that this is eerily reminiscent of the very same censorship measures undertaken by the German Nazis and the Soviet Communists during the 20th century.

Can book burning be far behind?

At issue today, however, is the new controversy surrounding Kagan. 2 developing stories concerning her written records, which the White House so far refuses to release, and her violation of federal law, are coming to the forefront of the attention of government watchdogs.

Regarding her written records,

Senate Democrats so far are dodging questions on whether the Obama administration should release records of Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan dating back to her days in the Clinton White House.

Kagan served on the White House Domestic Policy Council and then as Associate White House Counsel from 1995 to 1999.

Previously, the White House said it would wait for the Senate Judiciary Committee to makes its request before releasing any memos, which are currently held in the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas.
Further, the JAG prosecutor who handled the government's case against Gitmo terrorists, former Army Judge Advocate General Kyndra Rotunda, stated that Kagan's decision as the Dean of the Harvard Law School to ban the ROTC went far beyond a mere disagreement with army policy:

Rotunda, who is now a law professor at Chapman University Law School in Southern California, said Kagan did something more than simply disagree with the military over its policy regarding homosexuals -- she refused to follow the law, which required her to make room for the military recruiters.

“(I)t wasn’t just a policy – it was a federal law,” Rotunda said. “And when she disagreed with federal law, she just simply decided not to follow it. And the Supreme Court unanimously found that the law was constitutional, and there was no reason to keep recruiters off of law school grounds."
Thus, yet another in a long string of serious questions concerning Kagan's fitness for the Court comes to light--do we need a Supreme Court Justice who deliberately broke federal law?