All Kagan's papers for the Lewinsky affair should be made public (public vs. private lawyer)

My own limited mind | 6/11/2010 | ChiefJayStrongbow

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

Clinton supposedly had his own private legal team for the Lewinsky scandal. Any work that Kagan did was paid for by the taxpayer and should be made public. If Clinton used her or any of her staff for private advice, it would be an ethical issue that should immediately disqualify her from serving on the Supreme Court.

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

Just floating this idea out there in the hopes that she gets derailed. If enough agree and talk about it, then maybe it will get picked up by someone with a larger public microphone.

[what's up]

Likely this is the sole reason Kagan is being nominated; she rescued Clinton from impeachment.

[what's up]

Sorry...he WAS impeached.

She rescued him from being removed from office.

[SnakeDoctor]

Sorry ... that’s not how privilege works.

Attorney-Client privilege is between the attorney and the Client, not the attorney and whomever is paying the bills. We wouldn’t be privy to the details a Defendant disclosed to a public defender, and we shouldn’t be privy to the details of her representation of Clinton.

It is a non-issue.

SnakeDoc

[pepsionice]

A simple suggestion...we’re all wait...until all the Kagan papers are on the table. And if we need to get by with just eight judges for six months or a year....then we will do so. No need to rush...and if the White House had guessed that folks would just overlook this...they might be wrong.

[Condor51]

IMHO this gets into some sticky issues.

1. Clinton was convicted of perjury in the Paula Jones case. That was a civil matter. The incident occurred long before Billy-Jeff was POTUS.

2. But the Impeachment was based on his conviction of perjury, a criminal law violation, while he was the sitting POTUS.

3. Therefore he had two legal teams, one for his personal legal problem, which he had to pay for ($4 mill iirc). The other legal team pertained to him as the sitting POTUS, which 'we' had to pay for.

4. Ergo, its kinda like the Chicken and Egg thing. Which came first and what pertained to what. Was it 'Executive Privilege' and when did 'it' start? Or was it the standard Attorney-Client Privilege and when did that start.

And no matter whom you are. Even a sexual degenerate pervert POTUS or a Seven-Eleven stickup man gets the latter protection.

Given all this I think SCOTUS would be the only ones to resolve it. It's not like they haven't ruled in 'Privilege cases' before. From Nixon to Dubya SCOTUS was involved at some point.

[The Doctor]

The fact that she was associated with this, coupled with zero judicial experience, the military ban and the partial-birth abortion issue, could just put her over the edge in the public’s “mind.” I think she’s toast.