Elena kagan gay
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Matter
Elena Kagan isn’t a Supreme Court justice nominee yet, but her sexual orientation has adv become the topic of whispers about whisper campaigns; of a groundless female homosexual outing; and then of a strong White Residence refutation. So goes the life of a shortlister for a Supreme Court vacancy in this age of no-holds-barred 24/7 news/blogs/tattletales. We can’t help thinking back, with some nostalgia, to those gentler 1980s days when David Souter’s unmarried status caused him no such public grief—even after he was nominated and up for confirmation.
We join the blogger who wrongly outed Kagan in hoping that since the White House has now spoken, everyone will simply shut up, as they should have in the first place, unless they have some evidence to back up their gossip.
Who is and isn’t a lesbian got some engage last year, when a group of women were on the shortlist for the Supreme Court seat eventually filled by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One potential nominee, Stanford professor Pamela Karlan, confirmed that she was gay. The other potential nominees, and Kagan, said nothing at all about the matter. Presumably she thought it was all nobody’s business an
Kagan and the 'Gay Question' Controversy
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2010— -- When Elena Kagan goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee this summer, she'll be asked dozens of questions by probing senators eager to understand the influence her education, career path, family life and personal views would have on her judicial philosophy.
What she almost certainly won't be asked, based on decades of precedent and confirmation hearings, are questions about her sexuality. But that hasn't stopped a mixed cast of gay and conservative bloggers from doing it instead, sparking a boisterous debate about a nominee's personal life never seen before.
No evidence has proven that Kagan herself is gay, which both her college friends and administration supporters have flatly denied. Before the nomination, Colorless House consultant Anita Dunn said assertions by a conservative blogger for CBS News that Kagan is gay amounted to "people posting lies," while Colorless House spokesman Ben LaBolt called them "false charges."
Moreover, it's clear from a recent ABCNews/Washington Post poll that most Americans -– 71 percent -- would find a nominee's sexu
It's an odd thing to get attacked by the White House for a blog post, and odder still when the assault is for something mentioned in passing, and intended to highlight a political positive about a potential Supreme Court nominee.
My recent blog post at The New Ledger, crossposted at CBS News, mentioned that I thought the appointment of Elena Kagan, along with potential nominees Pam Karlan and Kathleen Sullivan, would mark the first instance of an openly gay nominee to the Supreme Court. I included it as a political positive, describing it as a "Plus" that "would please much of Obama's base." The issue is already out there: Karlan and Sullivan are both openly gay, and one need not look too far for arguments existence made on left-wing blogs that it would be an affirmative good to appoint a lesbian.
As Sam Stein writes: "The Pale House reacted strongly to the assertion, relaying that Kagan is, in evidence, straight. It was the first public pushback by the administration in defense of any potential Supreme Court nominee."
I erroneously believed that Ms. Kagan was openly gay not because of, as Stein describes it, a "whisper campaign" on the part of conservatives, but because it ha
Human Rights Campaign Congratulates Elena Kagan on Her Confirmation as Associate Justice of the Unit
by HRC Staff •
"We commend the Senate for confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. She has demonstrated a understanding of the deserve for equality for all Americans and her log indicates she may be more familiar with how laws and policies change the LGBT community than any previously confirmed Justice," said HRC President Joe Solmonese
WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual person and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today celebrated the United States Senate for confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The Senate voted 63-37 with 5 Republicans voting in favor of her confirmation and 1 Democrats voting against it.
"We commend the Senate for confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court," said HRC President Joe Solmonese. "She has demonstrated an understanding of the need for equality for all Americans and her record indicates she may be more familiar with how laws and pol
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