On the recordJune 16, 2010
I want to speak briefly on the President's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. The more we examine her record, the more concerns there are that her legal judgments might be infected by her very liberal political views. We see strong evidence of that in Ms. Kagan's memos as a clerk on the Supreme Court. In her work as Domestic Policy Adviser in the White House for President Clinton, we see those strong political views. We see strong evidence of this during her time as dean of Harvard Law School. Perhaps to some in the elite progressive circles of academia it is acceptable to discriminate against the patriots who fight and die for our freedoms, but the vast majority of Americans, I think, correctly know that such behavior is wrong. It has an arrogance about it and, really, it is not ethical. When Dean Kagan became dean in 2003, she inherited a policy of full, equal access for the military. But she reversed that policy in clear open defiance of Federal law. She kicked the military out of the campus recruitment office as our troops, at that very moment, risked their lives in two wars overseas.
