is going to be an all-out battle, senator josh holly saying expect a major battle in the senate if biden nominates woke activists. it would seem as we look out to when this actually happens there could be a very serious battle royale for his replacement. well, that s the thing with judicial confirmation fights. they are very unpredictable, you know. harriet meiers was effectively blocked in her effort, robert bork in his effort, and controversy with bret kavanaugh. these things can take unexpected turns and we are living in an age of rage and where reasonable people tend to be shouted down. but having said that, the votes are there, you know. the filibuster was rolled back
the claim is patently absurd. this is the problem with that claim. there is a real i think a genuine issue people should be seriously looking at here. elena kagan has held a number of positions where she has proven herself to be a very, very adept political staffer and legal thinker. none of these positions do we have a real sense of what she would do when faced with a decision like citizens united. she argued citizens united for the government. she tried to get the supreme court to not make the decision it did. but we don t know how she would have voted if she was on the other side of that bench. no one does. there s a big argument going on among electoral legal experts. so you do have that situation. but instead we re going to sit here and talk about her really quite incredible credentials because the republicans went for the easy attack here rather than the slightly tougher one. they didn t go for the tougher one i think because elena kagan can answer what her views are. it s harder
court, dean of harvard law. it s hard to find someone who s held more high level positions in different contexts than she has. there are legitimate criticisms of kagan, namely we don t know that much about her personal views on the law. if mitch mcconnell makes this an issue of whether or not she s harriet meiers, she ll get through and it will be the end of the conversation. the meiers nomination failed not because democrats pointed this out but because republicans wanted to sink it, not to mention that the bush white house hadn t really vetted her for the position before nominating her. but even based on the kagan background as we keep saying, solicitor general, dean of harvard law, nomination position as d.c. circuit court of appeals judge, clerked for justice marshall, clerked for federal judge mikva, attended harvard law. is it fair to claim she had a lack of experience comparable to harriet meiers? not at all.
attempt to paint ms. kagan as president obama s harriet meiers, let s turn to ezra klein. good evening. the associated press admitted the bp oil spill not president obama s katrina. now we have mr. mcconnell sending out in effect a joke e-mail trying to transform elena kagan into this president s harriet miers. is that working? if it does work, doesn t it come with something of a sting in its tail? i think it s working to keep a deputy press secretary in the minority leader s office employed. it doesn t really work for them. the people this works for very well is barack obama, in fact. elena kagan is no harriet meiers. the issue with harriet meiers is she was underqualified and got where she was by being a loyalist to a particular politician, george w. bush. elena kagan, not so. she s worked for two white houses, clerked for the supreme
trail blazer throughout her career, 2010 white house on elena kagan. chaser, these are alcohol terms, a trail blazer for women lawyers. the immotion of the meiers nomination when fellow republicans began to question whether president bush s nominee was qualified for the life time position. not so ms. kagan s fellow democrats. majority leader reed issuing a statement that she is the right choice to succeed justice stevens. chairman leahy said he was reassured saying the former harvard law school dean could be a counterbalance to the activist conservative majority that dominates the court. mr. leahy had not read the memo redefining liberal judges as activists. she has been politically active.