Elena Kagan- You go girl!

Elena Kagan will inevitably be confirmed to the Supreme Court despite the rantings of Senator Sessions - the singular self-appointed GOP hatchet man. Senator Graham tip toed into politically incorrect territory with his innuendo question, “You are a Jew, right?” by asking her what she did on Christmas. She tactfully replied, “Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant”. Funny thing is, I don’t recall any senator asking Chief Justice Roberts what he did on Passover… A most bazaar question, but I loved her reply!

Congress would be an empty chamber if Congressmen had to undergo a similar grilling before taking their seat. Unlike Congress, getting to the Supreme Court takes a lot more than obscene amounts of money or personal wealth to purchase mindless TV ads,  many years of clawing your way through the party machinery, all the while leaving most of your integrity behind as collateral damage in exchange for political capital.

By contrast, the Supreme Court just takes talent, great education, intelligence and luck- the kind of luck that gets you into Princeton; the kind of luck that gets you into Oxford; the kind of luck that gets you into Harvard Law School; the kind of luck that gets you a clerk position on the Supreme Court; the kind of luck that gets you a position as legal counsel to the President, and oh yes, the kind of luck that gets you approved by the Senate as the first female US Solicitor General.

Elena Kagan has been very lucky, but that much luck is no accident. America is lucky to have her.