Elana Kagan is Barack Obama's pick to fill Justice John Paul Stevens' slot on the Supreme Court. Begging the question: What did Justice Stevens ever do to Barack?
IPA notes:
Anupam Chander is at the University of California-Davis School of Law; Luis Fuentes-Rohwer is at Indiana University's School of Law; and Angela Onwuachi-Willig is at the University of Iowa College of Law. They are among the writers of "The White House's Kagan talking points are wrong: We questioned Harvard Law's diversity record under Elena Kagan. The White House pushed back. But they got it wrong," which states: "The first woman Dean of Harvard Law School had presided over an unprecedented expansion of the faculty -- growing it by almost a half. She had hired 32 tenured and tenure-track academic faculty members (non-clinical, non-practice). But when we sat down to review the actual record, we were frankly shocked. Not only were there shockingly few people of color, there were very few women. Where were the people of color? Where were the women? Of these 32 tenured and tenure-track academic hires, only one was a minority. Of these 32, only seven were women. All this in the 21st Century.
Where were the people of color?
It's a question you might ask of Barack as well.
He's made damn few appointments of color.
And he's run like crazy from any nominees who've weighed in on the serious matters.
This time last year, Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Future of the Court" was pointing out an obvious nominee for the Court.
Barack didn't want to honor courage then and he doesn't want to honor it now. Hence, closeted lesbian Elana Kagan -- so pathetic she won't even come out of the sexual closet. But somehow, someway, this woman who's never stood up for anyone (including herself) a day in her life will do so once she's on the Court?