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The documents include the thesis Kagan wrote in 1983 during two years she spent at Oxford University between graduating from Princeton and enrolling at Harvard Law School. Her subject was the Supreme Court\u2019s treatment of the exclusionary rule under the Fourth Amendment, a rule that requires courts to forbid the use of evidence seized through unconstitutional means. In criticizing the Warren court of the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote that the justices who expanded the application of the rule during that time \u201cunwittingly did almost everything in their power to assure the rule's eventual demise\u201d because of \u201ctheir total concentration upon end results.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her thesis, Kagan wrote: \u201cU.S. Supreme Court Justices live in the knowledge that they have the authority either to command or to block great social, political and economic change. At times, the temptation to wield this power becomes irresistible. The justices, at such times, will attempt to steer the law in order to achieve certain ends and advance certain values. In following this path, the justices are likely to forget both that they are judges and that their Court is a court.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Kagan releases cartons of documents to Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a>.\n

Meanwhile, the Pro-Choice Caucus says that it is \u201c troubled<\/a>\u201d by her previously-stated positions on abortion. (She urged President Clinton to accept laws against late-term abortions.) The pro-death lobby is promising to interrogate her closely to make sure that she believes in abortion enough.<\/p>\n

Quick, confirm this woman before the administration changes its mind! Of course she\u2019s liberal. What else could we expect? But maybe she\u2019ll prove to be the left\u2019s Justice Souter.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"