Thursday, May 19, 2011

Kagan helped shape defense for Obamacare

  Could we possibly expect our Supreme Court nominees (and eventual justices) to be forthcoming and honest with regard to their previous work product? At all?
  Now it comes to light that Kagan indeed helped create a defense for the health care law the administration shoved down our throats. From The Daily Caller:
Specifically, the documents show that Kagan was involved with crafting the legal defense of the Affordable Care Act in her role as solicitor general, before her appointment to the bench. The Media Research Center and Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that was filed in February 2011
  Later in the DC article, it is revealed that:

Kagan’s response: “This needs to be coordinated. Tracy you should not say anything about this before talking to me.”
Other email chains between Kagan, White House lawyers and Vice President Joe Biden’s then-Chief of Staff Ronald Klain show a coordinated effort on how to respond to questions about the health-care law that may have arisen in the confirmation hearings.
  Now why do "we" need to "coordinate" our responses if we are telling the truth? Isn't the truth what happened, rather than what we coordinate as a response?

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