CNSNews.com - Kagan Likely to Face Scrutiny for Views on Socialism, Military Recruitment on Campus, Senate Review of Judicial Candidates

CNSNews.com - Kagan Likely to Face Scrutiny for Views on Socialism, Military Recruitment on Campus, Senate Review of Judicial Candidates

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Elena Kagan, the nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat being vacated by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, wrote more than a decade ago that the Senate should subject judicial nominees to more scrutiny. She also opposed military recruiters on the Harvard campus and wrote positively about the Socialist Party in America.

In 1995, for example, Kagan wrote that the easy Senate confirmations of President Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees Stephen Breyer and Ruther Bader Ginsburg lacked “seriousness and substance.”

“When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce," she wrote in the University of Chicago Law Review in 1995 in an article entitled “Confirmation Messes, Old and New.”