Elena Kagan, SCOTUS Nominee -- Updated

At first blush, Elena Kagan is at best an unimpressive nominee for justice of the United States Supreme Court. She has no track record as a judge and there are plenty of abysmal things in the record that she does have.

For starters, I would not trust any nominee by this president. He has surrounded himself with self-avowed Communists and Maoists. He is a seriously flawed man who thinks himself to be the transformer of America. Think cartoon.

Elena Kagan has many faults as a nominee.

She reportedly kicked military recruiters off the Harvard Campus.

According to Glenn Beck, she said in the Solicitor General confirmation hearings that people who are "suspected" for contributing financially to terrorist groups should be held without bail or trial.

She is accused of coddling leftist plagiarists at Harvard.

She has written that the right to free speech should be balanced against "social costs."

The Washington post has collected ssome of Ms. Kagan's writings. As I sample them, they are bland and uninspired. She is not a great writer by any means. The writings are, by and large, sleep-inducing.

I do not have a problem with Supreme court Justice nominees without prior judicial experience.

Elena Kagan is an uninspired and uninspiring progressive. She will probably sail through her nomination hearings on the theory that it could be worse. It could always be worse. I hope she does not sail through. I hope that the Senate Republicans send a clear message that whoever is appointed should be moderate, and she is not.

I wish it were someone older, much older. The term of the appointment is too long to appoint someone so mediocre.

Update: Unimpressive oral argument before the Supreme Court.

Further update: I am not alone in thinking Kagan's argument was unimpressive.