Justice Elena Kagan
I have mixed feelings about
Elena Kagan being nominated for Supreme Court Justice.
Yes, she is a Liberal but Justice Stevens is a Liberal too so there isn't that much of a power shift going on. She is whip smart -- you don't become the Harvard University Law School Dean by being average. She appointed Conservative teachers to Harvard law as well as Liberal ones.
That being said, this rankles -- from
Kagan Watch:
White House: Obama may use executive privilege to withhold Kagan documents
In a letter to Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee Republican, Robert Bauer, counsel to Obama, implied the president may use executive privilege to hide some memos Elena Kagan wrote when she served in the Clinton White House.
�President Obama does not intend to assert executive privilege over any of the documents requested by the Committee,� Bauer writes.
�Of course, President Clinton also has an interest in these records, and his representative is reviewing them now,� he adds.
The Clinton library has more than 150,000 documents related to Elena Kagan. This is one of the few sources we have to know what Kagan thinks on many issues.
A PDF of the letter in question can be found
here.
If there is nothing to hide, why the mention of executive privilege as being an option...
Posted by DaveH at June 4, 2010 10:27 PM