Butts: student advocate of Professor Derrick Bell’s strike for "faculty diversity."
...
...in the Obama White House: Rep. Harold Ford Jr. noted on MSNBC on January 22, 2009--shortly after Obama's inauguration--that Butts is “a dear, dear friend of the president” who “will watch his policy back,” and “will be
willing to
sort of reach out into Washington and
sort of delve deeper and try to find some serious
public policy answers.”
...
Butts: "We’re asking simply for a person of color or someone who’s underrepresented here.
We’re asking for
people of color who have a scholarship that has a particular perspective on the law.
...
Supreme Court Justice
Elena Kagan, who once
lectured on Critical Race Theory, is also known to
have somewhat radical views on the Constitution, though these were not fully vetted during her Senate
confirmation hearings. In 2008, then-
Harvard Law School Dean Kagan blurbed Sanford Levinson's book,
Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct
It) (emphasis added): [blockquote] A lucidly written and compelling work, Our Undemocratic Constitution
asks hard questions about the nature of our founding document. Levinson, who is one of the nation's leading
constitutional scholars, argues here that much about the Constitution stands in need of dramatic change. This
is a timely and important book, and our country would benefit if its ideas provoked real debate.[/blockquote]
This article illustrates his long term association with persons advocating black liberation theology and contains information that may have stopped Kagan from ascending to the Supreme Court. It illuminates the fundamental thinking of Barack Obama. It will not create a firestorm but it is another basic element in the case that will be made.