Posted on 06/30/2010 1:15:57 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
ABC News' Rick Klein reports: Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has provided some of the most contentious exchanges of the rather tame Elena Kagan confirmation hearings. He's raised questions about Kagan's generally liberal political beliefs, and contends that Kagan would usher in vast expansions of government power as a member of the Supreme Court.
On ABC/Washington Post’s “Top Line” today, Coburn ratcheted up his critique of Kagan, saying she hasn’t been as forthcoming about her views as she should be, and questioning her interpretation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause as well as her expressed willingness to follow court precedents.
“I think the thing that's very worrisome is that she has a very expansive view of the Commerce Clause, and I find that she's ignorant of the Constitution's limitation of that, especially what our Founders wrote,” Coburn, R-Okla., told us.
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CALL Toomey, and tell his office exactly that.
Her answer in response to a commerce clause question indicated that there is NOTHING that it doesn’t cover,
and nothing that the gov’t should be restricted from doing or requiring.
Some on talk radio have “given up the ship” saying that basically nominees sail through.
Except the GOP turned down Bush’s Miers nomination and the Democrats turned down Bork.
We DON’T have to give her any “grace”.
Uh-huh. I'd love to see it, but I'm not holding my breath. The 'Pubbies will cave on her like they always have.
The key to her defeat in this matter is to raise hell with each senator, compelling them to think twice about voting to end a filibuster should that occur. The dems don’t likely have the votes to end one without a repub to side with them. Hopefully, Lindsey Graham will call in sick on the day of the vote.
Is she going to continue to stutter like Porky Pig if she gets confirmed?
By that standard, so was Harriet Meiers, who parenthetically had FAR more practical (and accomplished) legal experience than Kagan. But, wiser and more practical conservative legal minds prevailed. It wasn't a liberal challenge to Meiers that sunk her, it came from the intellectual right.
If there was the same kind of intellectual honesty on the left, people would be revolting about Kagan, who clearly doesn't possess the subject-matter expertise to sit on the country's most revered Court.
Her view of the law is, the law says whatever I say it says and the law says whatever I need it to say.
If we care at all about the constitution, we need to filibuster this until they withdraw her name. Not one piece of work must go forward until they send her to the curb.
Fax, call, e-mail and hammer your Senators. Now.
Kagan is a liar (falsifying the partial-birth abortion memo) (”It looks like my handwriting” under oath).
Kagan is a politically motivated abuser-of-power (military recruiters thrown off Harvard campus while she was Dean of Law School).
Kagan has never served as a judge and she has only two-years experience as a lawyer in courts.
And we’d know more if over 40,000 pages of records from the Clinton Massage Parlor Library weren’t held until just days before her confirmation hearing.
Any suggestion of a possible filibuster is totally and utterly without meaning today unless he has the votes to back him up on it.
They need to filibuster and delay this thing until after November.
I agree 100%
I agree 100%
Damn FDR........................
While I agree with the rest of your post, I take issue with this part. Please, if you get some time, go over to www.oyez.org and listen to the orals in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Kagan is an EMBARRASSMENT. She makes mistake after mistake on the simplest points of law. That performance alone should disqualify her from the bench.
why in God’s name do we not fillibuster this stupid, ignorant, and ugly to boot witch??
she is a progressive!
The administration, congress, all the leftist are doing what the F they want anyways...why are we even hesitating to make this at least a loud debacle..she MAY get nominated, but i say take down every single one of his Leftist crap nominees!
Make a scene...call her out on all her anti military, anti life actions!
Shock: Sotomayor Lied In Her Confirmation To Appease Republicans
—Ace
She indicated she agreed with the Heller decision, but, shock of shocks, immediately joined a dissent that denied the central finding of the Heller majority.
Gee, I wonder if Elena Kagan might do the same thing.
What document?
In Fairness... She didn’t lie so much as deliberately mislead.
Contrast that with her Senate testimony: “I understand the individual right fully that the Supreme Court recognized in Heller.” And, “I understand how important the right to bear arms is to many, many Americans.”
I don’t know how hard the GOP pressed her on that; either way, she’d refuse to answer.
But once burned, twice shy, or so it should be.
Kagan’s statements about “understanding” opinions should be taken as deliberately misleading.
Posted by Ace at 01:57 PM New Comments Thingy
where she was the least published attorney to ever become dean of Harvard Law.”
Yet she was nominated by the person who never wrote a single thing & was the head of the Harvard Law Review-—Barry himself.
What an incestous group they all are.
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