Thurgood Marshall Jr. on Kagan: 'She's Her Own Person' and 'Scary Smart'

I find the determinations that Kagan is "so unqualified" interesting in light of Palin run for the vice presidency.

Can we all agree that the Supreme Court is more right wing than the Democratic party? If we can agree on that then we can possibly have a respectable dialouge here.

My question is why would Elana Kagan have been nominated in the first place? There were other liberals with far more experience than she has. I expected a liberal for a liberal but someone so unqualified???

I also want to know why the Republican's are on board with this so eagerly?

She can be as scary smart as anyone wants her to be, but I think it's scary that she is going to sit in the Supreme Court.

Scary smart is a personal observation, and totally dependent on your own level of intellect.

It is probably time for conservatives to get off the "judicial activism" theme. You are in favor of judicial activists so long as their politics are the same as yours. How do you decide a gun control case and completely ignore the words "well-regulated"? Easy. You let your politics control your reasoning. How do you breezily equate a corporation with a human being? When corporations send their childre into war - then they are on equal constitutional footing with me--but Conservatives can coast past those types of distinctions. But let a liberal gets anywhere near a position of power--then it is time to bring out the handcuffs and bind them to some phony judicial philosophy. Your five judges are activists. They twist the Constitution right into the shape they wish --it is what constitutional law is.

Get me another liberal or two on the bench and lets have this pendulum make another swing.

Mr. Marshall has the advantage of knowing Ms. Kagan. We will only get to know her through her decisions she will make on the bench. I'm a conservative and see things through a different glass then a liberal. I don't believe that the Court primarily exists to look out for the “despised and disadvantaged", as Ms. Kagan and President Obama seems to think it does. I totally believe the judiciary should not favor any one particular group, but to secure justice equally for all through impartial application of the Constitution and laws.

All the personal attributes Mr. Marshall extolls about Ms. Kagan is great and I'm glad she possess all of them. We should all strive to such heights, but she has flaws and I would hope that the Senators question her vigorously and throughly so we know what we're getting. This is not just a job, it is a life time tenure and she is very young, inexperienced, has liberal views and has been an activist for certain causes, such as gun control, limitations on free speech and her views on the military and that, to me, is more "scary" than being "scary smart".