Foes may target Kagan's stance on military recruitment at Harvard

Dan82 · Apr 17, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/17/AR2010041701296.html

Four months after becoming dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan sent an e-mail to students and faculty lamenting that military recruiters had arrived on campus, once again, in violation of the school's anti-discrimination policy. But under government rules, she wrote, the entire university would jeopardize its federal aid unless the law school helped the recruiters, despite the armed forces' ban on openly gay members.

"This action causes me deep distress," Kagan wrote that morning in October 2003. "I abhor the military's discriminatory recruitment policy." It is, she said, "a profound wrong -- a moral injustice of the first order."

Her stance put Kagan squarely in sync with professors at Harvard and other law schools -- and wholly out of sync with the Supreme Court, which later ruled unanimously that the schools were wrong. Four years after that ruling, Kagan, now the U.S. solicitor general, is a leading candidate to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the nation's highest court. Conservatives have signaled that if President Obama nominates her, her stance on this issue dangles -- like perhaps no other in her career -- as ripe fruit opponents would grab to thwart her confirmation...
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Revan · Apr 17, 2010

Idiotic people in the USA. I just don't like these idiotic conservatives >_<

IsItSo · Apr 17, 2010

I desperately hope that Obama appoints someone like Kagan to the Supreme Court. Stubborn conservatism and justice are incompatible.

Dan82 · Apr 17, 2010

IsItSo said: ↑

I desperately hope that Obama appoints someone like Kagan to the Supreme Court. Stubborn conservatism and justice are incompatible.
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If you care about civil liberties and Executive power Kagan would not be a good choice. If see’s nominated I expect a repeat of what happened last year with Sotomayor; a lot of noisy opposition from republicans and then a not that difficult confirmation.

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