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Kagan to Tribe on Day Obamacare Passed: I Hear They Have the Votes, Larry!! Simply Amazing.

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Posted by Beavis 2011-11-15 09:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 She must recuse or she should be impeached. The law is clear.

Posted by Crineger Grundy7664 2011-11-15 10:25|| 2011-11-15 10:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Notice that Clarice Thomas does not fit the given requirements since he did not express an opinion about it. His wife, exercising her own 1st amendment rights, did - but he did not.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-11-15 10:41|| 2011-11-15 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Kagan is simply the most awful Supreme Court Justice we have ever had. She knows absolutely nothing about the Constitution.

She is a hack.

Posted by newc 2011-11-15 15:00|| 2011-11-15 15:00|| Front Page Top

#4 I IMO Kagan is dirty in this but I doubt it will be proven. Most of the conversations she had about Obamascare likely occurred off the record.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-15 17:00|| 2011-11-15 17:00|| Front Page Top

#5 "I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing,"

I wonder if this can be construed as an opinion re health care and meets the requirements of the law requiring recusal?

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-15 17:03|| 2011-11-15 17:03|| Front Page Top

#6 What is just as alarming is that two SES federal employees would have the horrifically bad judgment to not only make such statements in writing, but also to make them using US government computer systems, which everyone at that level knows damn well is subject to FOIA.

It's ten times worse that they are lawyers, who are required to always protect confidential and privileged communications. If these bozos aren't stopping to ask "would I paint this in neon-green 6" block letters on the side of my car?" before they hit send, they're asleep at the wheel.

Which is, in part why I'd say, meh, either way. As an ethical matter, of course Kagan should recuse herself. But she's never struck me as a hard-line ideologue, like Ginsburg, but more just naive and vapid. And utterly shocked and star-struck to be where she is. Frankly, I suspect the coercive, mandatory stuff - a government compulsion to do X, under pain of punishment - is going to bother her.

Bush 41 surely screwed up (Souter) and so did Reagan (Sandra Day O'Connor). No reason BHO shouldn't wind up with similar regrets about Kagan.

Just my $0.02.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-11-15 17:46|| 2011-11-15 17:46|| Front Page Top

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