WTP: Kagan pick makes SCOTUS the green lobby’s consigliere
With record of radical green extremism, Kagan’s job is to quash constitutional challenges to Cap and Tax, carbon dioxide regulation

WASHINGTON – America’s largest grassroots opponent of environmental extremism blasted President Barack Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, citing her record of radical environmental activism.

“With a well-earned reputation for imposing the radical environmentalist agenda on Americans, Elena Kagan is too far outside the mainstream and too ignorant of constitutional restraints to serve on the Supreme Court,” said Donny Ferguson, Western Tradition Partnership’s National Director of Media and Public Relations.

“With the Obama administration vowing to impose radical schemes like Cap and Tax and the government regulation of carbon dioxide even if Congress votes to tell him no, this is transparent attempt to put his personal consigliere on the Court to quash any challenges,” said Ferguson.

“Kagan’s nomination is a clear signal Obama sees our constitutional system of checks and balances as a threat to his radical green agenda.  Her job is to transform the Supreme Court from a constitutional watchdog to the radical green lobby’s lapdog” said Ferguson.

Obama picked Kagan as the government’s top lawyer last year chiefly because of her expertise in and commitment to using courts to impose environmentalist policy — with an eye on moving her to the Supreme Court. 

 “Under Kagan, we are likely to see the government take a less hostile approach to environmental enforcement,” a jubilant Matt Kenna of the Western Environmental Center told The New York Times upon her Solicitor General nomination last year. 

The Times reported “expanding regulatory enforcement of wetlands under the Clean Water Act and broadening the applicability of the Endangered Species Act to include the effects of climate change” may be at the top of her agenda.

A darling of the “green” activists who believe courts and judges should actively prosecute and punish employers, Kagan spearheaded the development of an “environmental jurisprudence” program while dean of the Harvard Law School.

“She left a nationally visible mark on environmental law at Harvard,” Jim Rossi, a visiting environmental law professor at Harvard, told the Times. “For many years, Harvard was not known for a primary expertise in the environmental jurisprudence, and that changed under Dean Kagan’s watch.”

As an advocate of aggressively using courts to legislate the radical green agenda, many of Kagan’s hires at Harvard are now shaping policy for the Obama administration.  One, Jody Freeman, is now Obama’s counselor for energy and climate change in the Obama White House.

Supported by grassroots members, WTP is a fast-growing, grassroots-supported non-profit organization dedicated to fighting environmental extremism and promoting responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources.  For more information, go to http://www.westerntradition.org.  For more information on this issue, or to schedule an interview, contact Donny Ferguson at 703-200-3669 or at donny.f@westerntradition.org.

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From today’s “Beltway Confidental” by Washington Examiner editorial page editor Mark Tapscott.

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