Elena Kagan & Jewish Social Networks

Followup:  Revisiting Corrupt Jewish Social Networking

Despite previously overlooking the issue of  Elena Kagan's complete lack of track record in Justice Stevens' retirement and Elena Kagan, yesterday Glenn Greenwald addressed this aspect of her unsuitability as a nominee for the Supreme Court in The case against Elena Kagan:

Kagan's lack of a record

One of the difficulties in assessing Kagan's judicial philosophy and view of the Constitution is that direct evidence is extremely sparse.  That's not only because she's never been a judge, but also because (a) her academic career is surprisingly and disturbingly devoid of writings or speeches on most key legal and Constitutional controversies, and (b) she has spent the last year as Obama's Solicitor General, where (like any lawyer) she was obligated to defend the administration's policies regardless of whether she agreed with them.  As Goldstein wrote at SCOTUSblog:  "it seems entirely possible that Elena Kagan does not really have a fixed and uniform view of how to judge and to interpret the Constitution."

As I've previously documented and examine further below, the evidence that is available strongly suggests that a Kagan-for-Stevens substitution would move the Court to the Right in critical areas.  But Kagan's lack of a real record on these vital questions, by itself, should cause progressives to oppose her nomination.

Unfortunately, Greenwald did not address how such a clearly unqualified candidate could be receiving serious consideration and in fact how Elena Kagan could ever have become the dean of the Harvard Law School.

The question has an interesting connection to the Paolo Munzi case described as follows by the JTA:

Man sentenced for ‘Jewish lobby’ list

April 9, 2010

ROME (JTA) -- A Rome court has sentenced a man to six months in jail for having posted a list of 162 academics on his blog and describing them as members of an alleged "Jewish lobby."

In a verdict handed down April 8, Paolo Munzi, 42, was convicted of defamation. But he was acquitted of having violated privacy laws and a law against instigating racial hatred.

In February 2008, Munzi posted a list of 162 people, most of them university professors, and described them in negative terms as members of a Jewish lobby supporting Israel. Some of the professors on the list were not Jewish but had signed pro-Israel petitions. The blog had links to far-right and anti-Israel Web sites, calls to boycott Israel, and Holocaust deniers.

Because Munzi's blog has been shut down, finding out exactly what Munzi wrote is difficult, but Italy shuts down blog exposing Italy's Jewish academic mafia provides some interesting information:

Having lived and worked in education in Italy for many years, I can confirm as far as I could see, listings of academic staff for Italian universities, particularly those for senior posts, read like an attendance list at the local synagogue. I have lost count of the number of times I have overheard junior academic staff at Rome's universities comment that their chances of making professor let alone chairing a faculty are almost nil if they were "unlucky enough" not to be born into the self-styled "most picked on group of people in the world".

While I don't agree that naming names is the first line of attack against the problem of rampant cronyism and the rule of a tribal academic mafia, perhaps it has reached the stage that nothing else will suffice.

I have heard the same stories both in US academia and in the US finance industry where Jewish social networks enforce Zionist orthodoxy and promote their own. The same situation almost certainly exists in the legal profession and throughout the US government. 

My blog entry Gladwell Supports Hegemonic Zionist Discourse discusses both the social networks and the hegemonic blocking that generally prevents discussion of them. It appears that in Italy those that violate Jewish Zionist imposed controls on public expression suffer legal action according to long-standing and traditional Jewish practices.

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For the danger that Jewish judges represent to the US legal system, see Red Herring: Resisting Islamic Law.

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