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this is what quin hillyer and the washington times wre. kagan is too political, too leftist and too experienced and too disrespectful towards existing law to beconfirmd for the u.s. supreme court. let's take that one-by-one. too political? guest: too political. the memos from both her time with chief justice marshall, and he time at the clinton white house show that she consistently is results oriented where she tries to figure out what political results she wants to get and then tries to twist the law to get there. rather than starting with the law and saying, okay, what ds the law tell me to do. her legal analysis is not actually really legal but political analysis. she shows that again and again. host: too leftist? guest: you go down a whole list of issues, and her legal analysis doesn't just work toward political ends, but towards leftist political ends. she showed that she actually with held information from president clinton from the american college of gynecologists and obstetricians and that showed the partial birth abortion was no