re: #38 The Curmudgeon

Natural rights — the concept Jefferson was talking about in the Declaration — don’t come from the sky. They’re inherent in our nature. If, for example, we don’t have the natural right of self-defense, then what’s left to us? It’s very disturbing that Kagan doesn’t just come out and say that.

I don’t agree. Coburn was going for a big gotcha, and Kagan knew it, so she limited her response specifically to the job of a Supreme Court justice — interpreting and enforcing the law and the Constitution.

Come on, don’t you recognize the religious right agenda in this one?