CNN: High court contender Kagan brings reputation for consensus-building

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Solicitor General Elena Kagan is on President Obama's Supreme Court short list.


Washington (CNN) -- "You are not my people." That was Elena Kagan's blunt but light-hearted declaration when she greeted conservative legal minds meeting at Harvard's prestigious law school in 2005.

As dean, Kagan warmly welcomed the thousand or so members of the right-leaning Federalist Society but let them know she shared few of their views on the law and society...

'Her heart beats on the left'

Kagan was born in April 1960 and grew up in a Jewish household in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She went on to Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She served as a law clerk for well-known liberal federal judge Abner Mikva and then for liberal Thurgood Marshall on the high court.

Just four months after taking the job as dean, in October 2003, Kagan told students in a campuswide e-mail, "This action causes me deep distress. I abhor the military's discriminatory recruitment policy." She called it "a profound wrong -- a moral injustice of the first order."

"I was at Harvard Law School when Elena Kagan became dean, and the liberals have no need to fear. She is one of them," said Carrie Severino, senior counsel at the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative legal group.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/04/scotus.contenders.kagan/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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1. Other than she's liberal leftist

any dirt that will give Bonehead palpitations and block her confirmation if she's the pick?

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2. They may accuse her of being gay and anti-military

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4. Another trifecta

for wing nuts to seize.

If we could pull off what the repugs did for Thomas we'd be golden.

I like her and Granholm.

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3. "progressive groups say they have been quietly assured by the White House of its confidence that"

"...Kagan will be a "reliable" liberal voice on the divided Supreme Court..."

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5. Good luck with that consensus stuff

Scalia? Thomas? Alito? Yeah, right.