GOP questions ‘two-month gap’ in Kagan’s health care involvement

[Jackson]

GOP questions ‘two-month gap’ in Kagan’s health care involvement

The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee said Thursday that the Obama administration is fueling speculation about Supreme CourtJustice Elena Kagan’s impartiality because it won’t turn over documents detailing her role in crafting the legal strategy to defend the health care law while she was serving in the administration.


Rep. Lamar Smith, the committee chairman, told Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that emails show Justice Kagan took an interest in the case in January 2010, when she was solicitor general, and he demanded to know what role she played between then and March 2010, when Mr. Obama tapped her to sit on the high court.

GOP questions 'two-month gap' in Kagan's health care involvement - Washington Times

 

[Conservative]

open and transparent my left nut.

from the OP article...

Asked by The Washington Times whether Mr. Obama would support turning over documents covering the two-month period in question, presidential spokesman Jay Carney said Congress already has fully vetted Justice Kagan’s views.

“Justice Kagan was confirmed with bipartisan support to the Supreme Court, went through the usual thorough confirmation process,” Mr. Carney said.

Carney didbn't even answer the fucking question!

The Times wasn't asking whether or not Kagan was properly vetted by Congress or the administration to become a Supreme Court justice... it asked about Obama supporting full disclosure of all relevant information about Kagan during the missing 2 months.

 

[PoliticalChic]

open and transparent my left nut.

from the OP article...

Asked by The Washington Times whether Mr. Obama would support turning over documents covering the two-month period in question, presidential spokesman Jay Carney said Congress already has fully vetted Justice Kagan’s views.

“Justice Kagan was confirmed with bipartisan support to the Supreme Court, went through the usual thorough confirmation process,” Mr. Carney said.

Carney didbn't even answer the fucking question!

The Times wasn't asking whether or not Kagan was properly vetted by Congress or the administration to become a Supreme Court justice... it asked about Obama supporting full disclosure of all relevant information about Kagan during the missing 2 months.

Let's not get too excited here...
1."Jay Carney said Congress already has fully vetted Justice Kagan’s views..."

Carney is correct....we had our chance.

2. Justice are bound by no requirement to recuse themselves for any reason...

3. Here's where I got excited:

""In her 1993 article "Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V," for the University of Chicago Law Review, Kagan writes:

"I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the uncoerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation."

In a 1996 paper, "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine," Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government.

That paper asserted First Amendment doctrine is comprised of "motives and ... actions infested with them" and she goes so far as to claim that "First Amendment law is best understood and most readily explained as a kind of motive-hunting."

Kagan's name was also on a brief, United States V. Stevens, dug up by the Washington Examiner, stating: "Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs."

If the government doesn't like what you say, Elena Kagan believes it is the duty of courts to tell you to shut up. If some pantywaist is offended by what you say, Elena Kagan believes your words can be "disappeared".
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This is a Justice of the Supreme Court.
Too late to ever count on her for justice.

 

[washamericom]

Judge Blocks Release of Recusal-Related Emails Kagan Sent WH

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http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/09-8857.htm
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/09-6790.htm
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...les/09-724.htm

http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...s/08-10382.htm

did she have power to do so ?