Well so much for light and breezy here. I can't really begin to express my outrage at the shots taken at Thurgood Marshall today by the Moe, Larry, and Curley of the Judiciary Committee, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the turd, Orrin Hatch, and John Kyl. These moral and intellectual pygmies had the nerve to insult one of the giants of the law in the history of this country, a man whose courage and cool helped tens of millions of Americans finally receive equal status under the law, and in the process, helped redeem this nation of some of its great original sin.
The subject came up in the form of an attack on Elena Kagan who had named Marshall (for whom she clerked) as one of her heroes. I can't imagine too many people more worthy of the role of hero to anyone who practices law for a living. But you can hear the barely disguised racism in Kyl's remarks regarding why he views Kagan's choice of hero with scorn:
Too often it sounds to me like Ms. Kagan shares the view of President Obama and Justice Marshall that the Supreme Court exists to advance the agenda of certain classes of litigants.
Mmmm, I wonder what "class of litigant" that might be?
Kagan's other sin seems to be that she expresses a strategic sense of what cases the Clinton Administration should try to take before the Supreme Court, which seems like the sort of thing one would expect from a presidential counsel, but evidently is beyond what the three stooges of the Judiciary Committee can comprehend.
