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Tea Time at the Kagan Household

A_Freeman Wrote: Jul 07, 2010 8:25 AM
Someone missed the point, first file, regardless (and I doubt your assertion) of the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, the truths contained therein regarding inalienable rights are true regardless of someone putting them to pen. Further, many of the state constitutions at the time of this country's founding contained those same truths and declared them to be the reason for their governments. Even more concerning your idiotic attempt to denigrate inalienable rights, the 9th amendment was placed in the US constitution to ensure a further safeguard against violating them, and if Kagan is disparaging them, then she is clearly not capable or qualified to be in any federal judicial or legal position, including here present office....

In my previous article, Top 10 Questions Kagan Should Be Asked at the Hearings, I proposed that, given Kagan’s past hostility toward religious groups, she should be asked about her views on the First Amendment, including the question, “From where — or from Whom — do our ‘inalienable’ rights come?”

But as it turns out, I was giving Miss Kagan too much credit. She can’t even tell us we have inalienable rights!

Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) questioned Kagan about this very topic in her hearings last week, and she clearly stated that she does not “have a view of what...