While speaking to law students at the University of Tennessee Law School last Friday, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said she was “not sure” if President Barack Obama would have nominated her for the position if she wasn’t a woman.
CNSNews.com is reporting that during the appearance, Doug Blaze, the Dean of Tennessee Law School, Doug Blaze, commented on Kagan’s remarkable career, calling her a “pioneer.”
“It’s been a remarkable career, and you’ve been quite a pioneer along the way,” he said. “[The] first woman to be Dean of the Harvard Law School, first woman solicitor general of the United States. You’re now the fourth woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court and one of three presently serving.”
Kagan responded by saying that “there were also things that I got because I was a woman. I mean I’m not sure I’d be sitting here. I’m not sure that I would’ve been President Obama’s nominee if I weren’t a woman. And if he wasn’t as committed as he was to ensuring that there was diversity on the Supreme Court,” she said.
“So, mostly what I think when I think about this question is how far we’ve come and how much I owe — and all the women who have come after me owe– to people like Justice Ginsburg and Justice O’Connor,” she said
When asked what were the greatest challenges of being a woman in the legal profession, she replied:
“Well, I feel pretty lucky that I haven’t had to surmount all that many barriers or leap over all that many hurdles that were there because I was a woman,” said Kagan. “And I think that that’s because of the time I came along where a lot of the women who preceded me had done a lot of the hard work to make sure that women and men were evaluated equally and had the same opportunities as each other.”
Commenting on Kagan’s statement, LifeNews Steven Ertelt says “The admission of a sex-based decision on the part of President Obama lends credence to pro-life arguments that he was looking to pack the court with pro-abortion activists rather than selecting the most qualified judge for an open seat on the highest court.”
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