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John Paul Stevens replacement: Elena Kagan.
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In a gushing article, The New York Times, reported on Monday, May 10th, that Barack Hussein Obama was nominating his hyper pro-abortion Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
Pro-abortion Senator Patrick Lahey, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has announced that hearings on Kagan's nomination will begin June 28.
Obama has chosen Kagan despite her total lack of judicial experience -- she has never served as a judge, even in traffic court. This is in addition to her controversial ties to embattled wall Street giant, Goldman Sachs, whose top managament was just grilled by Congress about their role in the financial meltdown.
It also goes without saying that Kagan has been active in promoting abortion and various pro-abortion leaders.
Last April 20th, pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens turned ninety. Having been appointed to the Supreme Court by Gerald R. Ford, in December of 1975, Stevens has served more than thirty four years. Also last April, Stevens indicated his intention to resign at the end of the Supreme Court's current term.
A number of replacements were supposedly under consideration by Barack Hussein Obama, including Diane Wood, Merrick Garland, Sidney Thomas, Leah Ward Sears, Jennifer Granholm and, not least, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; these in addition to eventual nominee, Elena Kagan. Not surprisingly, all of these are pro-abortion.
More to come: stay tuned.
Sonia Sotomayor
On May 26, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by Barack Hussein Obama for appointment to the Supreme Court, to replace pro-abortion Justice David Souter.Writing in the "Washington Post”, Robert Barnes and Michael Shear reported that: “Abortion Rights Backers Get Reassurances on Nominee.” They stated, despite Sotomayor's scant record on “abortion rights,” that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs asserted “the White House is nonetheless sure she agrees with the constitutional underpinnings of Roe v. Wade, which . . . provided abortion rights nationwide.”
NARAL Pro-Choice America promptly issued a statement which characterized Sotomayor as “a nominee with a distinguished record of professional accomplishments as a judge, prosecutor, and community leader,” adding that the organization was “encouraged by the strong support she receives from her peers and other legal scholars.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings for this nomination on July 13th. The following week, NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsed Sotomayor; citing that Sotomayor "articulated several times throughout the hearing that the constitutional right to privacy includes the right to choose," namely the right to choose abortion.
This nomination was confirmed.
David Hamilton
Just two months after taking office, Barack Hussein Obama was able to make his first appeals court appointment, David F. Hamilton of Indiana.
Hamilton has served as a member of the board of the Indiana branch of the pro-abortion ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union], as well as its vice president for litigation. Hamilton also was a fundraiser for the notorious radical group ACORN [Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now], which has substantial ties to Barack Hussein Obama.
Hamilton achieved fame, as a judge, with a number of on-going multi-year rulings to prevent the state of Indiana's implementation of its informed consent for abortion law. That obstruction on Hamilton's part was eventually overturned by the Seventh Circuit Court - the same circuit to which Barack Hussein Obama now wishes to appoint Hamilton.
Hamilton further achieved notoriety with his "Christ, No! Allah, Yes!" decision, writing: "The injunction orders the Speaker . . . that the prayers should not use Christ's name or title or any other denominational appeal . . . . If those offering prayers in the Indiana House of Representatives choose to use the Arabic 'Allah' . . . the court sees little risk that the choice of language would advance a particular religion or disparage others."
Commentator Wendy Long put it this way:
Hamilton has a history as a hard-left political activist, and his choice signals that Obama does intend to push extreme liberals onto the bench and politicize the courts as we've never seen before.
Hamilton was a fundraiser for ACORN (nice ACORN payback, Mr. President) and served as vice president for litigation and a board member of the Indiana ACLU. In 1994, when President Clinton nominated him to the district court, the ABA rated him as 'not qualified,' apparently because of his almost purely political (as opposed to legal and judicial) experience.
Interestingly, he is also the brother-in-law of perhaps the hardest left radical Obama nominee to the Department of Justice, Dawn Johnsen.
Beginning to notice a pattern here?
In a straight party line vote, on June 4, 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-7 to report Hamilton favorably and advance him to a full Senate vote.
Hamilton won that vote, also a straight party line vote.