Thread: Do you believe this Kagan statment ‘We Are All Originalist

Kagan Embraces Notion of Enduring Constitution; ‘We Are All Originalists’
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
By Staff, Associated Press

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, June 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Washington (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is calling the Constitution an enduring document, saying that its framers wrote it to last through ever-changing circumstances.

Her remarks in an exchange with Sen. Patrick Leahy on the second day of confirmation hearings touched on suggestions by Republican critics that she would legislate from the bench.

Kagan said the Constitution's authors laid out both specific rules and broad concepts. She noted they declared 30 the minimum age to be a U.S. senator but didn't elaborate on the Fourth Amendment's "unreasonable search and seizure." Kagan said they could have been more specific, but couldn't have known about bomb-sniffing dogs and computers.

"Either way," she said, "we apply what they say, what they meant to do, so in that sense we are all originalists."
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/68661

I think this is another example of political pandering for self promotion.

Just like Sotomeyor and gun rights.

I heard some of her today...she is side talking just like BO.

The 'Elusive' Truth About Kagan
Just like Sonia Sotomayor, the networks tried to insist Elena Kagan's political views were "elusive." Why can't they just tell the truth that Obama's nominees are extreme liberals?
By: L. Brent Bozell
June 29, 2010 23:19 ET


It's not cute when reporters play dumb. Last year, when Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, CBS anchor Katie Couric said labeling her “won't be easy.â€

She can't commit to anything!!!!! She claims to "not know what words mean" HOW THE HELL WILL SHE JUDGE IF SHE DOSEN'T KNOW ANYTHING????

She want to lable herself but then gives no lable?

Kagan Refuses to Characterize Herself as a 'Legal Progressive' Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDeEs6LOtuU