The Senate should not confirm Elena Kagan, because her views render her the first Supreme Court Justice who actively favors the introduction of Shariah law into national Constitutions and legal systems. To excuse themselves for voting for her confirmation, Senators
Wednesday’s federal court decision on Arizona’s immigration law is being rightly criticized for a number of reasons. But there are three silver linings to this situation, which may result in the rule of law prevailing in the end. On July
Between February 27, 2009, and today we learned something. We learned that this administration is bent on subverting republican government. Article IV of the Constitution — and its guarantee of a republican form of government — means nothing to Obama,
Three cheers for Newt Gingrich! For the first time, a major national American political figure has directly and accurately taken on the wellspring of the single most dangerous threat we confront today: the comprehensive, totalitarian and barbaric program the authorities
Previously on Big Peace we exposed Elena Kagan’s active support for Shariah Law. During her years as Dean of Harvard Law School, from 2003-2009, she ran and greatly expanded the Islamic Legal Studies Program. In publications and conferences, her program
The Center for Security Policy’s web ad raising questions about Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination targets her dedication to Shariah law: “As Dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan banned military recruiters from campus because US law said they couldn’t
At the hearings for Elena Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court, Senator Jeff Sessions rightly pointed out a dramatic inconsistency in the nominee’s capacity for outrage: While deploring the United States’ policy of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” in no uncertain
It seemed, no doubt, the fashionable thing to do at the time, and as in all Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s close relationships with Islamic law and Shariah jurists, she may have just wanted to please her Saudi donors supporting
New ad urging the Senate’s rejection of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. [youtube l1cC4Q6nA64 nolink]
In her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faced justifiable criticism for her deliberate discrimination against military recruiters while she was Dean of Harvard Law School. But with the exception of Ranking Member
Despite Elena Kagan’s impressive “evasiveness,” observers have noted a loose and shifting commitment to the principle of free speech. But her position, and that of liberal legal academics, is really quite simple: She favors free speech for the right people
The word of the week is “transparency.” No, this isn’t the vapid hopey-changey wordage that the Obama campaign and administration has been using for the past two years, rather the transparency I’m speaking of here involves the literal process of
From her days at Harvard, this video shows SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan questioning the credentials of Pres. George W. Bush’s nominee Harriet Miers raising many of the same questions critics have voiced about Kagan.
Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor came off as a 2nd Amendment defender when she was being questioned during her confirmation hearings. She voted the other way when a gun rights case came to The Court. Can we now trust
This week’s historic Supreme Court case on gun rights has pivotal implications for Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. From now on, the biggest battles over the Second Amendment will be won or lost in the Supreme Court. In the
The NRA has received conservative criticism for agreeing with Democrats to not oppose the free-speech-abridging DISCLOSE Act if they, the NRA, receive an exemption. We later learned that as part of the DISCLOSE Act deal, NRA board members have been
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Opening statement of Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan.
It may not be full REM stage sleep, but Sen. Al Franken certainly appears to be ‘resting his eyes’ during Elena Kagan’s opening remarks.
Left wing blogs have their dander up. They’re attacking me for saying the Elena Kagan favors cloning human beings. Once again, they are trying to confuse the public about what’s involved in cloning humans. Just because they favor killing the
There’s an old joke about a Transylvanian cookbook. The recipe for an omelet starts off with this: “First, steal two eggs.” If that note really appeared in some country’s cookbook, don’t look for constitutional government or a free market system
Every time you think that the left’s bizarre obsession with Sarah Palin’s personal life couldn’t get any weirder, they manage to step it up a notch. From fretting about the price of her wardrobe during the campaign through stalker Joe
The shameless media manipulators at the DNC have a new campaign designed to promote Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. As with previous campaigns, the “Kagan for Justice Action Center” is run via a special website set up by Organizing
Thirty-seven current Democrat U.S. Senators, along with former Senators Barack Obama and Joseph Biden, believed that Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, or Samuel Alito were not sufficiently qualified to be on the Supreme Court. Using their own standards, Elena
Comparisons are always a great way to show how differently the Old Media treats conservative and leftist politicians in America today and Obama’s nomination of the Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court gives us another opportunity to see the
Newt Gingrich is among those who have noted a serious chink in the protective armor the Obama administration and Elena Kagan’s other defenders have tried to throw up around her Supreme Court nomination. The vulnerability has taken on increased importance
This doesn’t qualify as much of a revelation since administrative law is Elena Kagan’s primary area of expertise, and one of her few items of legal scholarship is a frequently cited 2001 article entitled “Presidential Administration“. But imagine the outcry
The first amendment to the United States Constitution is so profoundly important that it permeates nearly every sector of our society. Clearly, America’s forefathers deemed the contents of this primary amendment so essential that it was perfectly positioned to precede
A third instance of Elena Kagan opposing Americans’ Second Amendment right to own a gun became public Thursday, ensuring gun rights will be a major issue in her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. It also confirms that President Obama’s gun-control agenda
Elena Kagan may be hostile to the view that the 2ndAmendment to the Constitution protects American’s individual right to keep and bear arms. Bloomberg reports today, “Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument.” With the evidence presented
The late William F. Buckley, Jr., once famously observed that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the entire faculty of Harvard. Buckley was prescient and correct about many things,
From Mediaite: Andrew Breitbart was back on Dylan Ratigan’s MSNBC show this afternoon to talk about Elena Kagan. Last appearance saw the debut of “jovial and measured Andrew,” while today it was all about the “irony mustache.” “What exactly is
So some gay groups are upset over a photo the Wall Street Journal ran of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan: It was also a picture we ran on Monday. It’s of her playing softball. The beef? That the shot is
Writing in Reason, Jacob Sullum‘s got this one dead right: Last month New York Times legal writer Adam Liptak said two recent Supreme Court cases “suggest that the Roberts Court is prepared to adopt a robustly libertarian view of the
I have been perusing the paper trail for SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan, but most of it is mere puffery written for the purposes of a future nomination. I will continue to examine her record and analyze her work (because politicians
CBS News: While the White House seems to believe the American people deserve to hear from Kagan, it has not made her available to reporters. That prompted some consternation at today’s White House briefing. “It appears that Solicitor General Kagan
“When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.” Elena
NY Times: In settling on Ms. Kagan, the president chose a well-regarded 50-year-old lawyer who served as a staff member in all three branches of government and was the first woman to be dean of Harvard Law School. If confirmed,
In 2005, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement. President Bush (with the oh-so-“helpful” suggestion from Democrat Harry Reid) then named White House Counsel Harriet Miers as his choice to replace her. A firestorm erupted. Critics on the
Today, President Obama is expected to announce the nomination of Harriet Miers Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. The only interesting question is how big of a supporting role the media chooses to play.