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As a biography for her, here are the following points:

• 1960 – Born April 28 in New York City
• 1981 – Earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Princeton University, summa cum laude.
• 1983 – Earned her Master of Philosophy degree from Oxford University
• 1986 – Received her Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School
• 1987 – Served as judicial clerk for Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals in the D.C. circuit.
• 1988 – Served as judicial clear for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court.
• 1995 – Began as Associate White House Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy under President Bill Clinton
• 1999 – Nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• 2003 – Appointed as first female dean at Harvard Law School
• 2005 – Began service as a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute.
• 2009 – Became the first woman to hold the position of Solicitor General of the U.S.

Another area of controversy is her senior thesis, “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933.  The Weekly Standard obtained a copy of it and here are a couple of excerpts from it:

“In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?”(pp. 127)

“Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.” (pp. 129-130)

Now I have no clue if she is a socialist.  Some websites have said that just because she wrote this in her thesis that it doesn’t mean she supports it.  They cite that she wrote from an entirely historical perspective.  It was in fact a history thesis.  Given Obama’s radical agenda, I would not be surprised to learn that she at least has sympathies in that direction.

However, I would like to read the whole thesis before I make a judgment there.  I would love to read other things she has written down through the years, but those documents are also impossible to find.  One other red flag that comes for me is her affiliation with Goldman Sachs in their Global Market Institute, yet I cannot find any articles attributable to her. 

The biggest thing so far that I fear about the nomination of Elena Kagan is the lack of information about her and as a scholar and intellectual that seems a bit suspicious.

Since this article, I have found some of Ms. Kagan’s writings.  Click here