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Could a Democratic Supreme Court nominee do less for progressive or liberal objectives than Elena Kagan?  It’s hard to imagine.  Even long-held party platform items like protection of citizens from corporations have been abandoned by this nominee (and nomination).  But with the Republican party running alarmingly so long and far right — Nevada Senate primary victor Sharron Angle’s flirting with armed insurrection, for instance — what’s had to give in current American politics is a sense of the rational. Continue Reading →

Could a Democratic Supreme Court nominee do less for progressive or liberal objectives than Elena Kagan?  It’s hard to imagine.  Even long-held party platform items like protection of citizens from corporations have been abandoned by this nominee (and nomination).  But with the Republican party running alarmingly so long and far right — Nevada Senate primary victor Sharron Angle’s flirting with armed insurrection, for instance — what’s had to give in current American politics is a sense of the rational. Continue Reading →

Could a Democratic Supreme Court nominee do less for progressive or liberal objectives than Elena Kagan?  It’s hard to imagine.  Even long-held party platform items like protection of citizens from corporations have been abandoned by this nominee (and nomination).  But with the Republican party running alarmingly so long and far right — Nevada Senate primary victor Sharron Angle’s flirting with armed insurrection, for instance — what’s had to give in current American politics is a sense of the rational. Continue Reading →