Saturday, May 15, 2010

Lincoln on Kagan

Abraham Lincoln, writing about the nomination of Salmon P. Chase for the Supreme Court:


"[W]e wish for a Chief Justice who will sustain what has been done in regard to emancipation and the legal tenders. We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known."


The cipher that is Elena Kagan is somewhat disturbing to me on that front -- we don't know what or how she thinks.


(Hat tip to the Volokh Conspiracy.)

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