Obama picks Kagan for Supreme Court  

um...woman

For someone who knows very little about Politics, President Obama is amazingly good at it, if you consider how many people have been it much longer and not gotten nearly as far as he has.

Yes, he's gotten our country far from what the founders intended.

@TheMetallion I could not disagree more.

lol @_soonernation_ I meant woman. My bad. lol.

In your defense, at first glance Kagan might appear to be male. jk

If they have a deep understanding of the Constitution they would have no need for real world experiences, nor would they need to understand the regular world. They are to apply the Constitution not real world experiences.

The constitution is a living document that has to be applied to the current world.

If all you have for personal experience is a courtroom you have a very narrow view of the world.

Example, there is nothing written in the constitution about privacy yet we all expect certain privacy's, it simply never occurred to a group of men that could legally shoot anyone who came on their property to include this in the constitution.

It's not a living document, it's a set of Laws...Do and Don't do. If you want to take your 'living document' philosophy then it would need to apply to everything in the Constitution. Perhaps we shouldn't have free speech now, since some things people say nowadays is harmful.

It would be hard to name very many Supreme court justices that would not refer to the constitution as a "living document" their term not mine.

Cheif Justice William Rehnquist is the only one I can name without going back some time in history. He was staucnch in his beleif that you could not imply what was not written in black and white on the original document yet he could never publicly reconcile how he made decissions about FCC regulations, womens rights, modern communications, international finance, the right to bear arms, this list could go for pages.

If it was simply a set of laws to be followed then we would not have to keep up with the courts decissions through the years for precedent.

Last time I looked at the constitution I did not read anything in it about internet copyright law, nor did it have anything about a womens right to vote and yet their have been decissions by the court and those and many other modern issues.