Monday, June 28, 2010

Homeschoolers alarmed by Kagan nomination

This is a very revealing article about this particular nomination for SCOTUS. First there is this:
From World Net Daily;
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's press for considering international law as "the context" for interpreting U.S. law has incited worries her appointment could pave the way for world treaties that threaten both parental rights and homeschooling in the United States.
A statement from the Home School Legal Defense Association points to Kagan's decision as dean of Harvard Law School to require first-year students to study international law:

"From the start, students should learn to locate what they are learning about public and private law in the United States within the context of a larger universe," reads a letter from Kagan and Harvard's Curricular Innovations Committee advocating the requirement. "Specifically, we recommend the development of three foundation courses … each of which represents a door into the global sphere that students will use as context for U.S. law."

A larger universe! A larger universe! You have got to be kidding me, right? I'll acknowledge a "larger universe" when the "universe" adopts the Constitution of these United States, Ms. Kagan. Then there is this:
Prof. Rabkin's report also points out Kagan's choice of Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Israel Supreme Court as her "judicial hero," calling him "the judge who has best advanced democracy, human rights, the rule of law and justice."

"Justice Barak was certainly a jurist of remarkable confidence – he makes activist judges in America look timid by comparison," objects Rabkin. "He was known for filling gaps by invoking standards from other countries – so much so that he made it a practice to hire at least one clerk each year from a foreign country (that is, a clerk whose legal training had been acquired in a foreign country rather than in Israel). … Senators should ask Elena Kagan, which practices of Chief Justice Barak does she think American judges would do well to emulate?"

Do you think any of our elected cockroaches on either side of the isle will ask that question? Will they have the guts to ask any tough question? I doubt it. And by the way, "human rights" are granted by governments, "unalienable" rights are granted by God. I would rather my rights come from the Creator, Ms. Kagan.
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