Posted on 06/19/2010 6:12:54 PM PDT by neverdem
Washington (CNN) -- A conservative magazine suggests Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is "hostile" to gun owners, based on notes she wrote in the Clinton White House in 1996.
The notes were released last week by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Kagan worked in the White House Counsel's office in 1995 and 1996. Kagan, 50, was nominated to the high court May 10 by President Obama, and her confirmation hearings begin June 28.
The disclosure coincided with the release Friday afternoon of about 80,000 more documents.
A March 1996 document is likely to stir conservative anger. In it, she labeled the Ku Klux Klan and the National Rifle Association as "bad guy" organizations.
The issue was a pending bill, the Volunteer Protection Act, which gave some volunteer workers from a range of nonprofits a measure of liability protection from lawsuits. Kagan expressed concern that certain groups might be included in a "Cumulative List" of tax-exempt groups that would be covered under the proposed law.
Kagan addressed her handwritten thoughts, based on a conversation with Clinton aide Fran Allegra, who responded that day that neither the KKK nor the NRA was on the list provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Allegra gently advised his colleague, "We probably need to be careful about suggesting 'bad' organizations will qualify for the provision bill as it would suggest we are allowing 'bad' organizations to qualify for tax-exempt status." The measure was passed into law in 1997, but ultimately vetoed by Congress. Allegra is now a federal judge.
The National Review first reported about the notes, and asked on its website, "Is Kagan so hostile to gun rights that she would compare the top gun-rights organization in the United States with a viciously racist hate group?"
The White House issued a response Friday...
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I guess a loose example would be to study the relationship between big animals and parasites. A big animal would be a conservative. A blood sucking bat feeds off the big animal. The blood sucking bat would be the liberal. Then the blood sucking bat feeds the young bats. The young bats would be black voters. Conservatives pretty much make the system run, and the parasites feed off of it.
And then again, there is the black version of the kkk, the new black panthers.... as militant as you want them AND full of marxist muslim HATE, raging hate....so, out of equity, they need to be included.
Maybe Beck will get into this message one day.
“It would be nice if there were signs that Kagan could be stopped.”
Prediction: She will get all Democrat votes and at least 10 turncoat votes. Those turncoats will not consist of anyone up for re-election this year. Shall we call them panty-waists (or just plain waste).
The GOP to this day remains intimidated by the left-wingers.
And to deter the freed ex-slaves from voting through terrorism, as they were found tending to be vote for Republicans.
Unbelievable that she mounded these two organizations into the same heap.
Why not add Republicans and Libertarians? Constitution Party Members or any one else who is not far left?
The list, ping
Well, she’s half right.
and yet republicans are giving her a free pass
Oh, that's more than fair - she's quite well qualified to be a judge on the municipal court. /sarc
Just picture a conservative jurist who labeled the ACLU a "bad guy" organization. The lefties would go balistic, and the jurist would never be confirmed. Unfortunately, our current batch of Republicans are a bunch of girly-men, who wouldn't put up a fight if their wive's 'honor' depended on it...
Pardon the typo(s)...
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