Kagan Not Supported by Rabbis

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has been shown to be not only a Statist, but an activist one. She thinks the Constitution allows the government to limit free speech. She's for partial birth abortion. She equates the KKK and the NRA. She worked in the Clinton White House 1995-1996 on the White House Council and the White House Domestic Policy Council from 1997 to 1999. She called them (KKK & NRA) "bad guy" organizations in a ruling that had to do with tax exemptions, and of course what she said was more "nuanced" than what's being reported. (Of course you stupid conservatives and Christians and traditionalists don't understand "nuance". Well, we do understand lies and 'spin'.)

Kagan has spent very little time on the bench actually making rulings. Most of her career has been as a professor, political advisor, and advocate for Leftist causes. Three days ago the current White House finally relented and released about 160,000 pages of her stuff from her years at the White House. Confirmation hearings begin this coming week. The White House fought releasing these at all from the Clinton Library. Regarding confirmation hearings, she's said she thought the Bork hearings were just great. "I loved what happened in the Bork hearings.... The Bork hearings were great, the Bork hearings were educational, the Bork hearings were the best thing that ever happened to constitutional democracy."

We're happy to see some Jews actually not support blindly support a Liberal. (It's problematic that Jews still vote Democrat even though the Party has shown itself to be anti-Israel, antisemitic, and against all traditional Jewish values.) In this case, 850 Orthodox Rabbis of the Rabbinical Alliance of America have come out against her.

Alliance spokesman Rabbi Yehuda Levin: "...a great deal has been made about the fact that she would be the second Jewish woman on the court, and we want to signal to people across the country that we take no pride in this.”

From the Alliance statement: “It is clear from Ms. Kagan's record on issues such as abortion-on-demand, partial-birth-abortion, the radical homosexual and lesbian agenda, the 'supremacy' of the anti-family panoply over religious liberties of biblical adherents, et. al., that she will function as a flame-throwing radical, hastening society's already steep decline into Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Two Jewish members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) support Kagan. The Alliance say Kagan so flies in the face of Judaic beliefs and values that she would serve as an embarrassment to Jews.

I don't ever want to see someone "borked", but I definitely want to see the same result from the hearings. This nominee doesn't have the judicial experience to serve on the Supreme Court.