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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I like you Senator Coburn, but please don’t make us promises that you guys aren’t going to keep.
Finally, somebody with a set of ba!!$ who’s willing to try & block this troll.
Obamah, Kagan and their ilk believe our Founding Fathers were fools.
Obamah, Kagan and their ilk believe our Founding Fathers were fools.
My impression of her decisions is “I’ll try this...If that doesn’t work...I’ll do this...No LAW behind it...just trying to bypass it BASED ON HER PERSONAL AGENDA.
The GOP doesn’t have the jewels to stand up to the Dems in this manner.
But the vote is 85-15 or so.
Every time, it seems.
Coburn should ask Kagin about her opinions and translations of many of Madison’s Federalist writings where Madison said that the Federal government’s role was to be limited.
What does he intend to do about Lindsey Graham...
She’s not “ignorant of Constitutional principles”. She just doesn’t like them...................
I’m still waiting for Candidate Toomey to put out a statement about her. He supported Sonya Sotomayor & I have serious reservations about voting for him. Knowing that this woman is such a pro-abortion pig AND a judicial activist, I really would love to see Toomey redeem himself by calling her out on it. I won’t hold my breath though.
So frustrating.
If she’s the BEST they can do, they better start looking again. Everytime she opens her mouth she scares the living hell out of me!.
Her view of the law matches that of the man who nominated her and his puppet-masters: It’s OK if we pass it (an unconstitutional law) because it won’t be enforced anyway.
Reminds me of Bill Clinton’s slip where he said he had kept all the promises he had intended to keep.
A gaffe is when a politician accidentally says what they really think. And Kagan and all the people she has surrounded herself with are lawless thugs. They should all be sitting in the slammer.
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Any senator can start a filibuster. It takes 60 votes to end it. Coburn could do this on his own.
A case could be made that all presidents should get their nominees provide the nominee is objectively unqualified.
Kagan is objectively unqualified.
Roberts was confirmed 78-22. Roberts was arguably the best litigator in the country when he was nominated to the DC Circuit, the position he held prior to being nominated to the Court.
Kagan, OTOH, has a paper-thin record as a practicing attorney, has never been on the bench and has spent almost her entire career in academia, where she was the least published attorney to ever become dean of Harvard Law. I would be surprised if Kagan gets 65 votes.
Talk is cheap. We'll see when the time comes.
The Dems need only one GOP Senator to defect. Not a tall order.
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