President Obama has made an innovative choice by selecting Ms. Kagan as his Supreme Court Nominee. However, I believe that her selection was premature.
The judicial branch is not a college campus or a government agency, which are the areas where Ms. Kagan has her experience.
Judicial temperment and experience is one of the factors that should be weighed in evaluating a nominee to the highest court of the land. And this background is nonexistent in Ms. Kagan's life experience.
Judges who have served on the bench should develop a feel for how their rulings impact not only the judicial arena but the broader community as well. Ms. Kagan has issued no rulings. Her experience has been theoretical in essence.
I realize that by having no rulings or judicial record there is nothing there to throw bricks at. But that is a total cop out. I am disappointed that Obama, for whom I voted, selected a nominee with such a judicially vapid background. I also am concerned that her nomination leaves the court without any representation from the Protestant segment of our nation. Where is the diversity in denying diversity and inclusiveness - and I do not consider myself a Protestant.
This nomination is as if Obama did not take it seriously and nominated his wife Michelle. Though I have read Mrs. Obama may have let her law degree lapse.
There is a high strangeness coming over the land.
One area of expertise the President might have looked into was business law and regulatory law since the Congress itself and the White House have been most incompetent by dismantling such landmarks as Glassman - Steagall and allowing the SEC to abolish the uptick rule, the latter suspiciously just before the massive short selling during the late 2008 stock market sell off.
The nation has mountains of problems. right now. Out here in the West we look for men - and women - who can match our mountains.
Ms. Kagan seems like a foothill to me.
Monday, May 10, 2010
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