From Bloomberg.com, “Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument“:
“Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol. Kagan … made the comment to Justice Thurgood Marshall, urging him in a one-paragraph memo to vote against hearing the District of Columbia man’s appeal. The man’s “sole contention is that the District of Columbia’s firearms statutes violate his constitutional right to ‘keep and bear arms,’” Kagan wrote. “I’m not sympathetic.” …”
I figured that sooner or later something like this would turn up.
It could happen again especially if she becomes an associate justice of the Supreme Court. But I am really doubtful about her qualifications as she was nominated by Obama. She doesn’t have actual experience of being a courtroom judge though she probably knows more about law as she has been a dean of a law school and Solicitor General. It seems that the nomination was done out of politics and not out of substance.