Does Elena Kagan believe in impartial justice? That's a very important question for a Supreme Court nominee, and there are disturbing questions raised by her handling of a scandal at Harvard Law School. Evan Gahr, writing at Jewish World Review:As Dean of Harvard Law School in 2004 and 2005 she treated two liberal law professors with kid gloves when they were busted for plagiarism. Her chicanery was so blatant that even a leftist academic said she should be fired for her "whitewash." [....]... the way she handled professors Larry Tribe and Charles Ogletree, when they both were caught swiping the words of others, seems to violate basic principles of fairness.She let the professors off easy for the kind of offense that for which any Harvard undergraduate or law school would have been suspended if not expelled.As the Harvard Crimson wrote after Kagan and Harvard president Larry Summers declined to punish Tribe, "the glaring double standard set by Harvard stands as an...(Read Full Post)