Is Elena Kagan Gay? Part 2

Elena Kagan's sexuality may actually become the central focus of her nomination fight. I have joked about this before, as I joked about Sonia Sotomayor's status, assuming this would be an issue happily tittered about by the sexual cognoscenti as well as by the virulent right.

But it seems about to go wide. You can feel it. We are just on the verge of articulating our right to know somebody's sexual point of view.

This is partly because, having not been a judge, she does not have a career history of written opinions, which leaves her opponents, who have perfected the art of opinion slicing and dicing and magnification, a bit flummoxed.

What can they say about her?

This is only a somewhat less happy condition for the left-wing. There's an awfully go-along-to-get-along aspect of Elena Kagan's extremely climb-the-ladder bureaucratic career that can easily be read as describing somebody who might not be the implacable foe of the liberals' implacable foes. That's dispiriting.

Except if she's gay.

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Comments

[Shake-A-Spear]

02:08 PM on 05/16/2010

Forget about her sexual orientation! She won't tell so don't ask. What's crucial is her legal ability, her persuavieness, her ability to write forcefully and compellignly, and her ability to match wits with dear Antonin Scalia who is devilishy brilliant, artculate, and cheerfully .wrongheaded

[Ipanemagirl]

04:09 PM on 05/12/2010

from the little I have heard of her, I am afraid she is not progressive and liberal enough to counter the very conservative tilt of the present supreme court.(Alito, Scalia, Roberts,Thomas). We cannot affford to put in a moderate at this point .Especially one that is inclined to agree with the R.
In order to have a moderate court we need 2 or 3 extreme left liberals to push back and to balance the R-leaning court..

[dub1gal]

11:31 AM on 05/11/2010

There is only one question here..is she gay? Well, does it matter? If she were a blind, one-eyed, Afro-American lesbian with a a hangnail, three autistic children, and was an animal rescuer and Protestant church -goer - the Repubs would hate her...none of it matters...is she competent and experienced? Or are we all so celeb and Twitter-mad that discussing the colour and fabrication of her dainties is so much more important than her ability to do the job?...I weep for America...

[Ipanemagirl]

04:13 PM on 05/12/2010

closeted gay people dont usually help the gay cause much....one just has to look at the recent" rent a boy" guy! She has never admitted being gay, so no guarantees there yet.