I asked last month whether the Left would work to prevent the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court and outlined the reasons why self-described “progressives” would not be happy with a Kagan nomination. Here are a couple of voices on the Left against Kagan. (I don’t have a read on how representative they are of left-wing opinion.)

On Salon, Glenn Greenwald presents “The case against Elena Kagan.” See also the transcript of his Democracy Now! interview on the topic.

On the American Prospect’s website, Scott Lemieux argued in “The Case for a Real Liberal on the Court” that a Kagan pick “would be bad for the development of progressive constitutional values.”

I hasten to repeat that no matter how sensible Kagan may be on the national-security and executive-power issues that aggravate the Left, it doesn’t follow that conservatives should welcome her nomination. For on a host of other issues—abortion, same-sex marriage, race and gender quotas, and an aggressively secularist reading of the Establishment Clause, to name just a few—there’s no reason to believe that Kagan would be anything other than a doctrinaire liberal judicial activist.