Mary Richards and Me

Turning up the heat on Elena Kagan

Posted on 6/30/2010 at 12:56:13 PM

Today is Day 3 of Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings and if she hasn’t started to sweat yet, I imagine she will today.

Judicial experts and pro-life advocates have ramped up their opposition this week and built a strong and compelling case against Elena Kagan becoming the US Supreme Court justice to replace Stevens. Though she lacks a judicial record, having never before sat on the bench, Kagan is a judicial activist at heart, and her words, her actions, and even her self-proclaimed “judicial hero” testify to that fact.

To get up-to-date on the evidence against her, check out the following links:

On partial-birth abortion, the evidence is clear: Kagan will do anything to protect it–even commit scientific fraud. Read yesterday’s initial report by Shannen Coffin, as well as further analysis and commentary by National Affairs editor Yuval Levin, First Things editor Joseph Bottum, and Americans United for Life’s Clarke D. Forsythe.

Watch this to see Senator Coburn ask a squirming Kagan about the commerce clause during Tuesday’s hearings.

Read Clarke Forsythe at National Review Online’s Bench Memos.

Read Mary Harned at Human Events.

Read Kellie Fiedorek on AUL’s blog.

Watch this video on Aharon Barak, Kagan’s “judicial hero”.

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of AUL, will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the confirmation hearings tomorrow, Thursday, July 1. You can find a link to her written testimony here.

For up-to-the-minute coverage on the hearings and the mounting evidence against Kagan’s confirmation, check out NRO’s Bench Memos and AUL’s blog.