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To: jazzpatriot
... Elena Kagen, stated emphatically that she didn’t believe in rights that are inherent to us.

I don't believe this is correct, going by the clip that Rush played. I think you could say she conspicuously declined to affirm such a belief, and she did say she wouldn't base rulings on them, in any case.

I thought these comments were very weak, especially in view of the ninth amendment, which explicitly recognized unenumerated rights.

4 posted on 07/04/2010 8:32:55 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

I don’t know what happened to the reply I sent you, so I’ll try again. It sounded pretty emphatic to me. When Tom coburn asked Elena Kagen if she believed that there are rights inherent to us, she said she only believed in rights that came from the Constitution and from the laws. I agree with you that these rights are incorporated in the ninth and tenth amendment of the Constitution which I believe Rush mentioned as well


8 posted on 07/04/2010 9:10:14 PM PDT by jazzpatriot
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