ENEWSPF is carrying a quite comprehensive article from Media Matters for America that addresses – heck, blows out of the water – every myth and falsehood that has been floated about Elena Kagan, including the following:
- Myth: Kagan is "anti-military"
- Myth: Kagan is "radical"
- Myth: Kagan’s praise for an Israeli Supreme Court justice shows she’s a radical (NEW)
- Myth: Kagan’s thesis shows she’s a socialist
- Myth: Conservatives can credibly argue that Kagan’s personal and political views are relevant to confirmation process
- Myth: "Kagan Standard" means Kagan must answer questions about issues that will come before the Supreme Court
- Myth: Kagan’s Goldman Sachs role taints her nomination
- Myth: Conservative opposition is based on the substance of Kagan’s nomination
- Myth: Obama used "empathy" standard rather than fealty to law in choosing Kagan
- Myth: Kagan is unqualified because she hasn’t been a judge (UPDATED)
- Myth: Kagan has said judicial experience is an "apparent necessity"
- Myth: Republicans would be justified in opposing Kagan because she lacks a judicial paper trail
- Myth: Kagan is "Obama’s Harriet Miers"
- Myth: Kagan’s record shows that she will rubber-stamp war-on-terror policies
- Myth: Kagan’s 23-year-old statements about the Establishment Clause suggest she’s hostile to religion
- Myth: Kagan’s recusal obligations would be "extraordinary"
- Myth: Kagan "can become" too "emotionally involved on issues she deeply cares about"
- Myth: Kagan not "fair-minded, impartial" and doesn’t have "proper temperament to be a judge"
- Myth: Kagan is anti-free speech
- Myth: Kagan supports banning books
- Myth: Kagan wanted to "ban pamphlets" by individuals (NEW)
- Myth: Kagan is anti-Second Amendment
- Myth: Kagan compared the NRA to the Klan (NEW)
- Myth: Kagan banned ROTC from campus
- Myth: Kagan "cover[ed] up" plagiarism at Harvard Law
- Myth: Kagan’s citation of Marshall’s statement that the original Constitution was "defective" is controversial
- Myth: Kagan’s memos to Justice Thurgood Marshall prove she’s outside mainstream (NEW)
- Myth: Kagan’s campaign donations are unusual
- Myth: Kagan supported Saudi sponsors of terrorism
- Myth: Kagan accepted a gift by Saudi prince that brought Shariah at Harvard (NEW)
- Myth: Kagan acted improperly in Warner Creek case
- Myth: As SG, Kagan indulged her own views rather than defending the law
- Myth: Kagan is avoiding "traditional interviews" with the press
- Myth: Kagan supports holding terror suspects "without due process" (NEW)
- Myth: Kagan believes that foreign law trumps constitutional law (NEW)
- Myth: Kagan wants to protect sex offenders in the Catholic Church (NEW)
- Myth: Kagan supports cloning human beings (NEW)