From a May 18 Associated Press fact check:
Elena Kagan is no ivory-tower peacenik.
Judging by her own words, the Supreme Court nominee held the armed forces in high regard during her tenure as Harvard Law School dean. She had one beef with the institution, a big one: its “repugnant” prohibition on openly gay service members.
Republicans are using that to portray her as an anti-military activist and to accuse her -- groundlessly -- of acting outside the law in restricting military recruiters on campus.
If anything, the record shows Kagan defended Harvard's conditions for on-campus military recruitment with less than a full-throated roar.
Read the rest of the article here.
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