Kagan Said She Was `Not Sympathetic' Toward Gun-Rights Claim

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Elena Kagan, Nominee, US Supreme Court
Nominated by by Barack Obama on January 5, 2009
50 Years Old
J.D. Harvard Law School
Jewish


Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” 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 nominated to the high court this week, made the comment to Justice Thurgood Marshall, urging him in a one-paragraph memo to vote against hearing the District of Columbia man’s appeal.

The man’s “sole contention is that the District of Columbia’s firearms statutes violate his constitutional right to ‘keep and bear arms,’” Kagan wrote. “I’m not sympathetic.”

http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-12/kagan-said-she-was-not-sympathetic-toward-gun-rights-claim-in-1987-memo.html

[Arkana]

1. But...but I thought she was secretly Antonin Scalia in disguise.

What am I supposed to think now?

[usregimechange]

2. God, I don't know, can't figure her out

[marshall]

11. She sure rocks that Babs Bush pearl necklace and ear rings

Who needs guns? At least illegal ones.

[Ohio Joe]

3. ummm... and?

Honestly, I don't know much about her yet as I have been a bit too busy to look but... This seems like a pretty weak ass argument against her. I agree with her statement here.

[usregimechange]

4. What makes you think it was an argument against her?

[Ohio Joe]

8. The article

The tone of it struck me as it being a negative.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Against her?

[Deep13]

6. Speaking as a gun owner and frequent shooter, neither am I.

If ones state has a licensing requirement, one has to comply with it. It's not unreasonable.

[WeDidIt]

7. IBTM

Quick, to the GUNGEON!

[CreatureFeature]

9. Unless we support EVERY part of the Bill of Rights

we will live to regret it.

I am SO sick of the current crop of elitists in both parties that don't give a damn about the Bill of Rights. IMHO, eroding the Bill of Rights is nothing less than TREASON!

[TreasonousBastard]

10. We have GOT to do something about quartering troops. It's getting out of hand.