Showing posts with label Elana Kagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elana Kagan. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2011

Kagan Prefers To Keep Her Job

The possibility of being impeached for lying to Congress has given her a change of heart...


In its notice, the court said Justice Elena Kagan had recused herself from the decision to take the case.
Justice Kagan has come under fire for not recusing herself from the decision to hear challenges to the new health care law.
She had no choice.
Someone is hoping this move will keep the wolves at bay.

I still think she needs to be removed from the court by impeachment.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Recuse Or Impeach?

The plan all along was to get her on the bench for this one issue.


Internal Justice Department email communications made just days before the House of Representatives passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act show that then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan was brought into the loop as DOJ began preparing to respond to an anticipated legal complaint that Mark Levin and the Landmark Legal Foundation were planning to file against the act if the House used a procedural rule to “deem” the bill passed even if members never directly voted on it.
In another internal DOJ email communication that same week, Kagan alerted the chief of DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel to the constitutional argument that a former U.S. Appeals Court judge was making against the use of this rule.
Then, during Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation process four months later, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her in writing if she had “ever been asked about your opinion” or “offered any view or comments” on the “the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to any proposed health care legislation, including but not limited to Pub. L. No. 111-148 [PPACA], or the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to potential litigation resulting from such legislation?"
Kagan answered both questions: “No.”
There is enough evidence to impeach Kagan, Holder and the clown in the White House if any Republican in Congress has the stones to do what is right.
Lying to Congress used to be a crime before we turned into a third world dictatorship.
Better thinkers than I think impeachment is in order.