Elena kagan gay
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Matter
Elena Kagan isn’t a Supreme Court justice nominee yet, but her sexual orientation has instantly become the topic of whispers about whisper campaigns; of a groundless lesbian outing; and then of a strong White Residence refutation. So goes the life of a shortlister for a Supreme Court vacancy in this age of no-holds-barred 24/7 news/blogs/tattletales. We can’t help thinking back, with some nostalgia, to those gentler s days when David Souter’s unmarried status caused him no such public grief—even after he was nominated and up for confirmation.
We join the blogger who wrongly outed Kagan in hoping that since the White House has now spoken, everyone will simply shut up, as they should have in the first place, unless they have some evidence to back up their gossip.
Who is and isn’t a lesbian got some verb last year, when a group of women were on the shortlist for the Supreme Court seat eventually filled by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One potential nominee, Stanford professor Pamela Karlan, confirmed that she was gay. The other potential nominees, and Kag
Kagan and the 'Gay Question' Controversy
WASHINGTON, May 13, &#; -- When Elena Kagan goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee this summer, she'll be asked dozens of questions by probing senators eager to understand the influence her education, career path, family life and personal views would have on her judicial philosophy.
What she almost certainly won't be asked, based on decades of precedent and confirmation hearings, are questions about her sexuality. But that hasn't stopped a mixed cast of gay and conservative bloggers from doing it instead, sparking a boisterous debate about a nominee's personal life never seen before.
No evidence has proven that Kagan herself is gay, which both her college friends and administration supporters have flatly denied. Before the nomination, Alabaster House consultant Anita Dunn said assertions by a conservative blogger for CBS News that Kagan is gay amounted to "people posting lies," while Alabaster House spokesman Ben LaBolt called them "false charges."
Moreover, it's clear from a recent ABCNew
Elena Kagan’s (Non) Sexuality
President Obama did not hint at or allude to or even tip-toe around the question of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s sexuality in his announcement today, and neither did she. And so it should be. As our own Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick pointed out last week, unless anyone comes up with actual proof that Elena Kagan is a lesbian-and NO, this is not an invitation to go hunting-the whisper campaigns and the whisper campaigns about the whisper campaigns should terminate. Whether that stops people from endlessly Googling “Elena Kagan” and “gay” is another story.
It is, of course, perfectly possible for Republicans to wage an all-out war against her in the nomination hearings. Some conservative groups would be pleased if her sexuality became a central issue and Kagan became to gay politics what Anita Hill was to gender. But somehow, I doubt this will happen. For one thing, other whispering types are already set to spread the same rumors about Lindsey Graham, the main questioner in Kagan’s previous nomination hearing for solicitor general. And also, t
The first female Solicitor General of the United States and now an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Elena Kagan is a prominent legal scholar and jurist who has advocated for justice and equality since childhood.
Born in New York Urban area on April 28, , Elena Kagan is the daughter of Robert Kagan, an attorney, and Gloria (Gittelman) Kagan, a college teacher. Kagan’s father represented the rights of tenants in the city’s many co-op conversions and her mother was known as a demanding but consecrated teacher at Hunter College Elementary School. Their function in law and education inspired Kagan’s future career path, as well as that of her two brothers, who are both school teachers.
Kagan was raised Jewish and her family belonged to Lincoln Square Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A top student at her Hebrew school, she strongly desired to mark her coming of age with a bat mitzvah when she was 12 years old. However, her Orthodox synagogue had never held a bat mitzvah, as only boys were allowed to observe their bar mitzvahs in the Orthodox tradition at the period. Jewish girls