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Just when you thought there couldn't be any more players in the ongoing soap opera over the hunt for President Obama's original birth certificate and his constitutional eligibility for office, there comes yet another name: Elena Kagan. Yes, the same Elena Kagan nominated by the commander in chief to be the next justice on the U.S. Supreme Court has actually been playing a role for some time in the dispute over whether Obama is legally qualified to be in the White House.

Just when you thought there couldn't be any more players in the ongoing soap opera over the hunt for President Obama's original birth certificate and his constitutional eligibility for office, there comes yet another name: Elena Kagan. Yes, the same Elena Kagan nominated by the commander in chief to be the next justice on the U.S. Supreme Court has actually been playing a role for some time in the dispute over whether Obama is legally qualified to be in the White House. Here's the connection. Kagan served as solicitor general of the United States from March 2009 until May of...

Elena Kagan clerked under Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. But apparently she didn’t learn very much. And as a consequence she should not be confirmed to the Supreme Court herself. This is not about partisanship, it is about principle. It is not because she is a liberal, it is because she is not true to the court and its rulings. Much ado was made about her appearance last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We saw all sorts of pictures on the evening news of her making funny faces, and vacuous reporters weighed in on how she had handled the...

Democrats on the panel are impressed with the Supreme Court nominee's answers, but most Republicans are wary of her views. "As a judge, you are on nobody's team. As a judge, you are an independent actor." Elena Kagan "You listen to her answers, you can see why Harvard picked her to be dean of the law school and you can see why she was picked to be the first woman as solicitor general. It was like being back and hearing some of the very best professors I had in law school listening to her answers. They were superb." Sen. Patrick...