In college Elena Kagan wrote an essay lamenting Republican gains in the 1980 election and referring to candidates backed by the Moral Majority as “avengers of ‘innocent life’ and the B-1 bomber.”
Now that Kagan stands as a nominee to join the Supreme Court, some conservatives believe the 30-year-old remark may reveal a personal animosity toward their side of the abortion rights cause.
But liberal activists also wonder about Kagan’s position. They point to memos she wrote as a policy staffer in the Clinton White House urging President Clinton to take a compromise position on some late-term abortions.
President Obama’s advisors say he has no doubt that Kagan is a legal progressive who will maintain the current balance of the court if confirmed to replace the retiring liberal John Paul Stevens. But with the constitutional right to an abortion apparently hanging by just one vote on the court, Kagan’s record is giving pause to both sides.
What a ridiculous transparently posturing article this is — nobody — at least anybody remotely intelligent — on the conservative side is wondering what Kagan’s position is on abortion. The title is incredibly self-serving: “Elena Kagan’s abortion stance has both sides guessing”.
Heh — the LA Times *wishes* that were true.
To the victor belongs the spoils. Come time to cast a ballot people seem to forget or chose to ignore the long shadows of their decisions.