Have you heard? President Obama has nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the soon to be vacant Supreme Court Justice seat! If confirmed, she will be the third Woman and the youngest Justice to serve. Are we gaining ground or what?
Now of course there is no easy road when these nominations come up. When she was nominated for Solicitor General, only nine Republicans supported her. While she has an impressive background, she would be the first nominee in 40 years to be nominated with no experience for the job. She is currently the first female Solicitor General, was the first woman Dean at the Harvard Law School, made the very controversial decision to ban military recruiters from the campus in light of their “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Will she have a hard time with confirmation? Probably, especially since she has no court experience. But we’ll be definitely watching and waiting as this process unfolds. Congratulations Elena Kagan. What’s your opinion on this decision? Please share.
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A.M. Lewis Senior
Solicitor General Kagan is the consensus pick for the SCOTUS and is very qualified for the position. When confirmed she should be the counterweight to Chief Justice Roberts and his conservatism. With that said, however, will social advocacy groups that espouse diversity especially by means of Affirmative Action, risk demanding that Ms. Kagan defend her hiring record in regards to women and women of color, while at Harvard Law? Roland S. Martin, has a good commentary on this over at CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/10/Martin.kagan.Supreme.court/index.html].
Here is the quick break down of the 29 positions she filled: 23 white males/5 white females/1 Asian-American female. Now, as Roland points out, if this were a nominee from a Republican holding the top job in the White House,and a white male with this type of hiring record….well we all know how the proverbial it would hit the fan.
A.M. Lewis Senior
Man was I way wrong, in thinking that the debate on Kagan and her lack of hiring diversity would just be interesting. It’s taking on a life of it’s own as all things D.C. based do. The White House pushed back by saying she offered “visiting offers” to minorities with the assumed reasoning that such a visiting lecturing stint would lead to an offer of full time faculty. Sounds like crap to me. Why not just make the full time offer for the faculty role? If after all the minorities and women were good enough to be offered “visiting” status, why not full monty?