Terry Mitchell

A Reason to Be Concerned About Kagan



Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010

by Terry Mitchell
http://commenterry.blogs.com

Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan got underway this week. Most experts believe she will easily get enough votes to become the newest Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. However, I see one big reason why senators should be concerned about her.

While she served as Dean of Harvard School, Kagan restricted military recruiters' access to students there. She did this because she opposed the Defense Department's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on gays in the military. If that was her personal view, fine, but the school was receiving government funds and was therefore required by law to open its campus to military recruiters.

If Kagan had no problem imposing her views in a way that was contrary to the law while in that position at Harvard, why would anyone believe that she wouldn't do the same thing as a member of the Supreme Court? Except, in the latter case, she wouldn't just be ignoring the law, she would be ignoring the Constitution.

Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, freelance writer, amateur political analyst, and blogger from Virginia, USA. He posts a least one article a day to his blog - http://commenterry.blogs.com - on subjects such as current events, politics, technology, society and culture, religion, health and well-being, self improvement, personal finance, trivia, and sports. He is also the owner of a new privacy-enhanced search engine - http://www.SearchMost.com.

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