Dana Milbank Writes: Kagan may get confirmed, but Thurgood Marshall can forget it! — As Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings opened Monday afternoon, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the unusual approach of attacking Kagan because she admired the late justice Thurgood Marshall, for whom she clerked more than two decades ago.

“Justice Marshall’s judicial philosophy,” said Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.), the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, “is not what I would consider to be mainstream.” Kyl — the lone member of the panel in shirtsleeves for the big event — was ready for a scrap. Marshall “might be the epitome of a results-oriented judge,” he said.

It was, to say the least, a curious strategy to go after Marshall, the iconic civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown vs. Board of Education. Did Republicans think it would help their cause to criticize the first African American on the Supreme Court, a revered figure who has been celebrated with an airport, a postage stamp and a Broadway show? The guy is a saint — literally. Marshall this spring was added to the Episcopal Church’s list of “Holy Women and Holy Men,” which the Episcopal Diocese of New York says “is akin to being granted sainthood.” [ READ MORE ]

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1. Myths and falsehoods about Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination

2. Limbaugh Suggests Obama Is Packing the Supreme Court to Repeal the Constitution

On first day of hearing, Special Report pushes Kagan myths

Beck falsely claims Kagan “moved” Harvard Law curriculum “from case study to global law“

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Hypocrite Republicans are knocking Obama supreme court nominee Elena Kagan for the same reasons they liked Bush’s ding-bat Harriet Miers.

Fox News’ LIARS — Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have falsely suggested Elena Kagan’s college thesis shows she is a socialist or radical. In fact, Kagan’s thesis did not express support for socialism or radicalism, and regardless, conservatives — including Hannity — previously said that nominees’ political views are irrelevant to the confirmation process. [ READ MORE ]

And, Fox Nation falsely suggested that Kagan argued that speech promoting “racial or gender inequality” could be “disappeared” by the government. In fact, in the article Fox Nation cited, Kagan actually stated that “the uncoerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation”; she did not advocate for a government ban on all such speech. [ READ MORE ]

Elsewhere, the one-legged, racist radio monster, Michael Savage unloaded on Kagan with anti-semitic epithets. [ SEE VIDEO BELOW ]

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Release The Kagan: Jon Stewart Slams Republicans For Hypocritical Obama-Bush Comparisons

Hannity advances falsehood that Kagan “thr[ew] military recruiters” off campus

Hannity says Kagan’s background is “strident, radical left, like the president“

Hannity repeats falsehood that Kagan banned military recruiters and declares it should “disqualify her“

Limbaugh: Kagan is a “budding communist,” “the first amendment is something she doesn’t like“

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With “fangs” leaking blood, the tea-bagging Republican noise machine commenced its attack on Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, with lies and innuendo — laying on her every rotten falsehood they can conjure — ranging from some alleged plagiarism at Harvard to harboring “anti-military” sentiments.

Syphilic liar, Fox’s Sean Hannity introduced his Fox News audience to Elena Kagan by cramming four myths about her nomination into a tirade that lasted less than 2 minutes, concluding with the suggestion that Kagan was “just another Obama radical being elevated to the highest levels of our government.” [ READ MORE ]

Citing no evidence, Kinky Dick Morris calls Kagan an “extreme leftist” on the environment

SYPHILITIC LIAR Hannity falsely claims Kagan “kick[ed] military recruiters” off Harvard campus and was “in violation of federal law“

Hannity asks if Kagan “is just another Obama radical being elevated to the highest levels of our government“

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The U.S. chamber of commerce has built an army of 6 million members and a war chest of 200 million dollars to target “vulnerable” Democrats and replacing them with Republicans.

The five Republican stooges in the U.S. Supreme Court, recently ensured that American democracy is for sale — to the highest bidding corporations, by taking away all restrictions on corporate ability to buy elections.

This was preemptive move for Republican dominance in the 2010 and 2012 elections.

The same court stole the elections for Bush in 2000, and are now re-tooling to “take back the country” for the big-bad racist right. [ NOTES: ] Terror Alert! Yelled George; As ‘Stupid Americans’ Crawled Underneath Their Beds, Bush Stole 2004 [ READ MORE ]

Obama’s complaints at SOTU prompted an Alito a YOU LIE! moment.

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Keeping The Supreme Court Impartial

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[ NOTES ] – Eric Deggans: I’ve figured out what annoys me most about the media circus that has erupted in the wake of Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. It’s not watching a long procession of white males — and a few females — dissect what Sotomayor meant when she said eight years ago that she hopes a Latina would make better legal decisions about discrimination cases than a white male.

What irks me most, is what happens whenever race surfaces as an issue in politics: white politicians and pundits pretend their race and culture have no impact on their sensibilities. Why does the term “identity politics” only surface when people of color voice their concerns about stereotyping and institutional bias? [ READ MORE ]

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