Kagan Under Obligation To Open Up

In 2005, when Barack Obama was a senator and Harriet Miers was nominated by then-President Bush, Obama put out this statement:



"Harriet Miers has had a distinguished career as a lawyer, but since her experience does not include serving as a judge, we have yet to know her views on many of the critical constitutional issues facing our country today. In the coming weeks, we'll need as much information and forthright testimony from Ms. Miers as possible so that the U.S. Senate can make an educated and informed decision on her nomination to the Supreme Court."



Obama was not saying that lack of judicial experience is necessarily a disqualifying factor, as some Republicans are now hinting. He was merely saying that we needed to know more about Miers.



What little we do know about Kagan suggests an expansive a view of executive power as well as other cherished conservative and neoconservative positions that would shift the court too far to the right. But as Obama's statement shows, Kagan's lack of judicial experience in and of itself should lead us to see Kagan as a risky choice.



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