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To: SilentZ who wrote (565665)	5/11/2010 4:14:53 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1577381

While the American left back then used the Supreme Court to promote social change in areas like religion, race and abortion, today it looks at it more as a backstop to defend those rulings. The right, on the other hand, remains aggrieved and has waged an energetic campaign to make the court an agent of change reversing some of those holdings. So typical of NYT reporting. What total bullshit. The Right has done no such thing; the Right has only desired to protect the integrity of the Court, which has been trampled by the Left for decades.

To: SilentZ who wrote (565665)	5/11/2010 5:16:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577381

Ms. Kagan is certainly too liberal for conservatives, who quickly criticized her nomination on Monday as a radical threat. But much like every other Democratic nominee since the 1960s, she does not fit the profile sought by the left, which hungers for a full-throated counterweight to the court’s conservative leader, Justice Antonin Scalia. I think what the Left wants a SC justice who has published numerous controversial articles and made numerous controversial rulings from the bench. And if such a person exists, I doubt that they would get confirmed.