Tony Perkins Washington Update
President Obama wont be in power for 30 or 40 more years but his hard-Left ideology could rule for decades to come. At just 50-years-old the Presidents pick for the Supreme Court Elena Kagan would be the youngest justice on America s most important bench.
Hired for life without any accountability Kagan has the unique opportunity to channel the Presidents ultra-radical agenda long after hes gone. And channel it she will. As Ken Klukowski legal expert and co-author of Ken Blackwells new book wrote today Kagan would be a dream appointment for this administration.
Shes a liberal without a paper trail. Shes never... had to lay out her beliefs on hot-button issues... but Obama has a massive vetting team in place and the only candidates on his short list are people who have been vouched for by some of the Presidents most trusted advisors... who have a firm grasp of her interpretation of the Constitution.
While her lack of experience will benefit the White House its sure to cause some concern in the U.S. Senate. The Washington Post says her qualifications for the court can only be called thin. Even her professional background is thin. Kagan has zero judicial experience--despite Americans belief that it is the single most important factor in naming a justice.
In announcing her nomination President Obama predicted that she would bring leadership to the court--but even that is speculation. No one knows how she would fare as a judge because unlike every other justice on the Supreme Court shes never been one!
CBS was blunt about her credentials (or lack thereof). Kagan has been nominated with no judicial experience a mere two years of private law practice and only one year as Solicitor General.
Meanwhile the President hailed her as a consensus-builder when in fact Kagans most recognizable act was debasing the entire U.S. military. Controversy-building yes. Consensus-building? Hardly.
She attacked Dont Ask Dont Tell as a moral injustice of the first order and then tried to ban military recruiters from university campuses as punishment. The position was so indefensible that liberal ideologues like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disagreed. Even Peter Beinart a former editor of the Left-leaning New Republic seems concerned. The United States military is not Procter and Gamble.
It is not just another employer... You can disagree with the policies of the American military; you can even hate them but you cant alienate yourself from the institution without in a certain sense alienating yourself from the country.
Barring the military from campus is a bit like barring the President or even the flag. Its more than a statement of criticism; its a statement of national estrangement. Contact your senators today and tell them to thoroughly question Elena Kagan on these issues and more. An enemy of the military is no friend of ours!
