« The BP Gulf Oil Gusher Represents: An Historic Failure of Government And Industry, A Tragic Violation Of The Public Trust And Social ContractHoly mackerel! Christians must love and defend Israelis, preaches church mission »

KAGAN HEARINGS A FARCE

July 10th, 2010

Allen L Roland

The Kagan hearings are a farce and everyone, including Elena Kagan herself, knows it. It's Kabuki theater at its best ~ an elaborate stylized judicial dance-drama that fools no one except the American public who long ago settled for less than substance in their leaders.

Elena Kagan is Obama's Harriet Miers, with an Ivy league education, but no judicial experience or judicial philosophy for that matter. It was Kagan who once wrote in a 1995 book review "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." But here are some meaningful legal issues that were never asked at her confirmation hearings ~

New Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has described retired Israeli Judge Aharon Barak as her “judicial hero.” Barak is sometimes described as a liberal, but a review of his decisions reveals that he has always sided with the Israeli government in cases where arbitrary behavior by the state was being challenged. He also established the legal guidelines that enabled torture by the Israeli authorities. Kagan herself is of a like mind, favoring government prerogatives, executive privilege and secrecy even when there is no clear legal reason to deny access to information. " http://tinyurl.com/executiveprivilegeabuse


If executive privilege, torture and secrecy are not legal issues worthy of discussion, particularly after the judicial abuses of power by the Cheney/Bush administration, than Democrat progressives are either brain dead or on life support.

So the Kagan confirmation farce continues ~ only Jon Stewart captures its true essence calling the Kagan hearings the most awkward in American history. Video 7 Minutes http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/07/02/daily-show-kagans-nomination-hearings-are-the-most-awkward-in-american-history/

-###-

Allen L Roland http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/kagan-hearings-farce.html

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations allen@allenroland.com

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
Cartoon courtesy of Pat Oliphant / Washington Post

No feedback yet

Voices

Voices

  • by Kaitlin Harper "The sun turns black, earth sinks in the sea, The hot stars down from heaven are whirled." -- Völuspá (The Prophecy of the Seeress - Norse- A prophetic vision of Ragnarök) Israel and America have never been more isolated…
  • poem by: Clever Iconoclast Cast I this spell from here to Holy Hell to ghosts who rumble roads where witches bode their toads. [Witches’ Familiars in 17th Century Europe (February 2011 update) – Benjamin Breen] To henchmen on the lurk In dungeons…
  • Dr. Althea Mentes I. The Pressure Valve: How Rage Became a Renewable Resource All empires master the skill of domination, but America industrialized it. Our rulers discovered that rebellion, like oil or lithium, could be extracted, processed, and sold…
  • Fred Gransville Gaza was and is now a laboratory in which the shoulders of business, law, and amorality collide in ways that defy euphemism. To call what occurs “peace” is to embrace an Orwellian fiction; to call it “conflict” is to sanitize…
  • By David Swanson, World BEYOND War The Nobel Committee has frequently given the peace prize to major war makers, and frequently to do-gooders whose work in a variety of fields has been unrelated to abolishing war. It has also often given the prize to…
  • Cathy Smith The mainstream press shows its Zionist complicity plainly. Headlines like Israel awaits hostages and peace deal may be imminent ignore 77 years of Zionist bloodletting. The "press" writes about the genocidal deaths of ~67,000 Gazans as if…
  • Fred Gransville Map of families registered in Texas reporting one or more members with Morgellons Disease. Morgellons disease is one of the most perplexing and controversially shrouded conditions in modern medicine. Characterized by fibers emerging from…
  • It’s Football Season The Summer has gone and the winds have come The leaves are falling and fall is in the air But the sun shines bright and and the fields are buzzing  The bees are preparing for the long winter’s night Propaganda fills the mail  As the…
  • Robert David The Bush Controlled Demolition of Democracy The George W. Bush years (2001–2009) were less a presidency and more a controlled demolition of freedom, liberty, trust, wealth, and global credibility. Bush shattered the economic backbone of the…
  • By Mark Aurelius Part 1 was published at this link directly below (you are advised to read it as ** worthy): https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2025/09/21/radioactive-how-the-real-radicals#more60423 Likely you agree that these times that we…
Censorship is not safety. It is authoritarianism in disguise. Bing is not just a search engine—it is an information gatekeeper. Click the red button to email MSN and Bing.com executives. This message challenges their censorship of ThePeoplesVoice.org and demands transparency, algorithmic fairness, and an end to suppression of free expression.
October 2025
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
 << <   > >>
      1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  

  XML Feeds

b2evolution CCMS
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted articles and information about environmental, political, human rights, economic, democratic, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. This news and information is displayed without profit for educational purposes, in accordance with, Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Thepeoplesvoice.org is a non-advocacy internet web site, edited by non-affiliated U.S. citizens. editor
ozlu Sozler GereksizGercek Hava Durumu Firma Rehberi Hava Durumu Firma Rehberi E-okul Veli Firma Rehberi