{"id":10892,"date":"2010-05-13T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10892"},"modified":"2010-05-19T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:36:04","slug":"lets-try-to-focus-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10892","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Try To Focus Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll give Obama this much; his administrtion is playing the “Is Kagan or is Kagan not gay?” card at just the right time; it’s occupying our peabrain media so much so that none of them, even were they so inclined, will ever even ask about her record on human and civil rights:<\/a><\/p>\n

Elena Kagan<\/a> said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was \u201cnot sympathetic\u201d toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.Kagan, whom President Barack Obama<\/a> nominated to the high court this week, made the comment to Justice Thurgood Marshall<\/a>, urging him in a one-paragraph memo to vote against hearing the District of Columbia man\u2019s appeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apologists say that she was reflecting the view of the “elite” bar in the years before Heller<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rubbish.\u00a0 Adolf Eichmann reflected the “legal” view of Germany’s elite for 12 years; he was still wrong.<\/p>\n

We – the good guys – don’t have the votes to scupper Kagan.\u00a0 I’m afraid it’s a done deal.<\/p>\n

WELCOME MAHABLOG READERS!:\u00a0 I responded to Barbara “Maha” O’Brian’s misleading, context-challenged little swipe at me in this post here<\/a>, which is a vastly better-thought-out response than her original grab-bag of ofay stereotypes and lack of legal understanding, deserved.<\/p>\n

You should ask Barbara a question, though; why does she delete comments that challenge her?\u00a0 Does she have that <\/em>big a need for control?\u00a0 That’s kinda strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll give Obama this much; his administrtion is playing the “Is Kagan or is Kagan not gay?” card at just the right time; it’s occupying our peabrain media so much so that none of them, even were they so inclined, will ever even ask about her record on human and civil rights: Elena Kagan said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10990,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892\/revisions\/10990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}