Madcap_Magician
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shockwave said:She's been solicitor general for a long time and has excellent relationships with all of the Court justices.
The "no experience" meme is false and wrong. Anybody pushing that should be ashamed of themselves for carrying Fox News water. Kagan is probably one of the most qualified candidates imaginable. She's on good terms with the far right-wing activist judge arm of the court, and also comfortable with the smart people. A really good pick and she should be easily confirmed.
No, she really doesn't have any judicial experience, and in the last 20 years has somehow gotten tenure at two major law schools without really publishing anything. Literally.
By all appearances, she's a good academic lawyer, but has no experience as a judge. She reminds me of the Harriet Miers nomination. Miers had been a great lawyer and worked as White House chief counsel for a while, but had no judicial experience herself and had the misfortune of having known George Bush for long enough to be considered a crony. Kagan has known Obama for a long time, too.
Now don't get me wrong, she's not the worst possible appointment. I think President Obama is trying to get some credibility as a moderate and avoid a confirmation fight in the senate before midterms. The far right and the far left will both squawk about her, the former for her stand against military recruiters as a Harvard dean and the latter for her moderate stances on judicial deference.