Elena "Shorty" Kagan To Get Own Supreme Court "Confirmation Mess"

If anyone is prepared for a confirmation hearing, it’s thoroughly actually heterosexual man-loving Elena Kagan, former Harvard Law School dean and current U.S. Solicitor General. Not only has she thought quite a bit on what a confirmation hearing should reveal, she’s no stranger to the political process, having been shut out of a confirmation hearing entirely after Clinton nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. But believe it, this process will be excruciating. You thought the Goldman Sachs hearings down in D.C. were mad political grandstanding? You ain’t seen nothing yet! And while her confirmation process as Solicitor General was quite boring-she kept making the case that her job was to represent the interests of the U.S., without regard to her personal opinions! The nerve, to say she’d, like, do a good job and stuff and serve America!-in this confirmation process (assuming we’d get there), she will, we think, be far more revelatory about her potential decision-making process. A process some of us may or may not like, entirely apart from our need to get reelected, not that that matters.