Obama's court nominee (moderate? Only for Obama)

Forget the fact that the woman has no judicial experience at all, her political views are very dangerous. Only Obama would think she was a moderate.


Kagan penned her senior thesis—titled “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933”—wherein she specifically thanked her brother Marc, “whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas.” In the body of that work, Kagan lamented that “a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States”; that “Americans are more likely to speak of … capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness”; that “the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter”; that “in a society by no means perfect,” no “radical party” had yet “attained the status of a major political force”; that “the socialist movement [had] never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties”; and that the Socialist Party had “exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance.” Kagan called these developments “sad” and “chastening” for “those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America.”


Kagan's understanding of the Supreme Court's role mirrors that of Thurgood Marshall. In one of her legal writings, Kagan cited Marshall's assertion that the Constitution, “as originally drafted and conceived,” was “defective.”