A follow-up to my post yesterday on Elena Kagan’s Oxford thesis, in which she defends judges who “mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends” that they personally favor:

The Washington Post’s Eva Rodriguez, in “Elena Kagan and ‘Stupid Liberals,’” nicely captures Kagan’s thesis:

[Kagan] lambastes the liberal Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s, but not for its unabashedly activist rulings. Instead, she slams the court for failing to craft unabashedly activist rulings that would better withstand the test of time.…
Kagan may not find the Warren Court’s legal methods appealing, but there is every indication she agrees with the outcomes.