Posted on 05/10/2010 1:16:47 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
Top White House officials bristled Monday when asked whether they think Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s sexuality will become an issue in her confirmation hearings.
“It’s not anything I’m going to get into,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking to reporters in his West Wing office.
Gibbs was asked a handful of times about rumors that Kagan is gay, and gave terse responses each time.
Asked why the White House pushed back so aggressively when CBS News published a piece on its website (CBS appears to have pulled the piece) that said Kagan, if confirmed, would be the country’s “first openly gay justice,” Gibbs said it was not an issue to the president.
“We are going to defend the nominee that the president has chosen,” Gibbs said when asked if he thinks the rumors will be brought up during the confirmation process.
When asked what the White House was defending Kagan from, Gibbs said: “That’s just a broad answer.”
“I’m just not going to get into somebody who is doing what that person was doing on CBS’s website. This is about who she is going to be as a justice,” Gibbs said.
Ron Klain, chief counsel to the vice president and a key figure in the White House legal team, said: “Elena went through the same vet that everyone else goes through for the Supreme Court is all I’ll say.”
On a separate issue, Klain said that the administration will not immediately release memos written by Kagan when she worked at the White House under President Bill Clinton.
“I’m sure the committee will request those papers and we’ll reach an accommodation with the Clinton Library on that,” Klain said. “We’ve got to see what the committee wants to see and we’ll go from there.”
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“Because you’re a guy? “
Because he’s a switch hitter at best or plain flat queer!
To say that I am ashamed of this WH is barely scratching the surface. As for Kagan being a lesbian I think that is just a decoy from the fact that she’s a hard core commie. IOWs I think they picked a woman who is lesbian specifically so that all attention and controversy would be on that. She will be confirmed if that is the issue the right focuses on. She has written about the “positive rights” view that Barry0 has. Communism.
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