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Supremes Flip We The People “The Bird” while Kagan laughs about Obamacare
My friend and conservative activist attorney Larry Klayman filed an amicus brief and wrote an op-ed this week, blasting Justice Elena Kagan who still refuses to recuse herself from the Obamacare case, despite having helped write, defend, and lobby to pass the bad health care law she will soon judge as “good law.” Klayman also criticizes Chief Justice Roberts,who won’t ask Kagan to step aside:
“Our Founding Fathers were certainly inspired by our Lord, but they were not God,” writes Klayman. “So, it should come as no surprise that they did make some serious mistakes when drafting and enacting the Constitution of the United States. One of these was to allow presidents to put nine establishment political hacks in power, and then call them justices of our Supreme Court. This may sound extreme, but it is true. Just look at the just-released annual report on the federal judiciary, issued by none other than Chief Justice John Roberts, who was nominated to preside over the Supreme Court by George W. Bush, a so-called conservative Republican president no less.
“In this annual report, Roberts – obviously writing for all of the nine justices, including ‘his eminence’ – tries to head off a legal challenge to newly Obama-appointed Justice Elena Kagan hearing the upcoming constitutional challenge to Obamacare. In a New York Times front-page story on Jan. 1, 2012, titled ‘Chief Justice Defends Peers on Health Law,’ the paper reveals:
“In the face of a growing controversy over whether two Supreme Court justices should disqualify themselves from the challenge to the 2010 health care overhaul law, Chief Justice John G. Roberts on Saturday defended the court’s ethical standards.
“The chief justice’s comments came in his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary. In it he made what amounted to a vigorous defense of Justice Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan who are facing calls to disqualify themselves from hearing the health care case,which will be argued over three days in late March.”
Klayman goes on to say what we’ve said for weeks, that Kagan must recuse Obamacare. But if she does not, and Justice Roberts won’t rebuke her publicly as he should, then it’s up to us, the American citizens, to awaken the U.S. Congress to threaten impeachment.
We are awakening America, the press, the Congress, and the Supreme Court itself. Let’s not give up this critical fight, and expose Kagan until she hears the court case in March.
Chief Justice Roberts: Stop Asking Kagan to Recuse Obamacare.
Your faxes have been noticed by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. After YOU helped fax over 83,000 petitions to Congress (with copies directly to the Supreme Court) demanding Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from hearing the Obamacare case, Chief Justice Roberts came to Kagan’s aid by writing a letter defending the Court’s integrity.
Roberts wrote in his “end of year” report that we shouldn’t worry about Kagan’s bias, despite the fact she helped write, defend, and lobbied to pass Obamacare:
“I have complete confidence in the capability of my colleagues to determine when recusal is warranted,” Roberts wrote. “They are [Kagan is] jurists of exceptional integrity and experience whose character and fitness have been examined through a rigorous appointment and confirmation process.”
“The Supreme Court does not sit in judgment of one of its own members’ decision whether to recuse in the course of deciding a case. [Roberts won’t rebuke Kagan.] Indeed, if the Supreme Court reviewed those decisions, it would create an undesirable situation in which the court could affect the outcome of a case by selecting who among its members may participate.”
“If an appeals court or district court judge withdraws from a case, there is another federal judge who can serve in that recused judge’s place. But the Supreme Court consists of nine members who always sit together, and if a justice withdraws from a case, the court must sit without its full membership.”
“A justice accordingly cannot withdraw from a case as a matter of convenience or simply to avoid controversy. Rather, each justice has an obligation to the Court to be sure of the need to recuse before deciding to withdraw from a case.”
So Roberts won’t step in to tell Kagan to recuse herself. What do you think? I think we’re getting their attention. If Roberts won’t oversee Kagan, the U.S. Congress must.
Should Justice Kagan be trusted to “not recuse” herself, or impeached by Congress?
Even Liberals admit Kagan should recuse Obamacare. (Story that won’t go away.)
Now even self-professed liberals are admitting publicly that Justice Elena Kagan is biased and must recuse herself from hearing the Obamacare case next summer.
Self-avowed liberal Democrat law professor Eric J. Segall just wrote a blistering op-ed against Kagan’s bias, that made waves in the Wall Street Journal and National Review.
Segall writes: “Recently I wrote an editorial in Slate arguing that Elena Kagan should recuse herself in the upcoming challenge to President Obama’s health-care plan. Because I am a ‘self-avowed’ liberal, the piece created a bit of a stir, as noted by the Wall Street Journal.
“Elena Kagan should, however, recuse herself based on the undisputed fact that her office, the Office of the Solicitor General, and her top deputy, Neil Katyal, were undeniably involved, from the beginning, in the Obama administration’s litigation strategy defending the Affordable Care Act (‘ACA’). Publicly available e-mails show that on March 21, 2010, Katyal informed Kagan of a meeting to discuss the litigation, and said to her: ‘This is the first I’ve heard of this. I think you should go, no? I will, regardless, but feel like this is litigation of singular importance.’
“This, and other evidence, demonstrates that the Office of the Solicitor General was involved in discussions about how to defend the ACA, and it is undisputed that Justice Kagan was the head of that Office. So here is a hypothetical that demonstrates that Kagan should recuse herself. This argument does not depend on 1) any charge that Kagan lied during her confirmation hearing, which I emphatically don’t believe she did, or 2) any finding that the law requires her recusal, though it might.”
Segall wonders, for example if Rick Perry became President, and appointed Kenneth Starr to the Supreme Court, after both helped pass the ‘Affordable Bible and Torah Act’ wouldn’t the Left scream and yell and demand recusal? Liberals can’t have it both ways.
You can read his full op-ed here. Then let’s make sure Congress returns to a pile of faxes.
New secret memo proves Kagan “substantially participated” in Obamcare. Impeach now!
A “smoking gun” secret memo (read it here) just released by the Justice Department now proves that Justice Elena Kagan “substantially participated” in writing, defending, and passing the Obamacare law, which she still won’t recuse herself from ruling upon at the Supreme Court this summer. Discovered through Freedom of Information Act requests (and heavily redacted), the memo was written to Kagan herself, by her own deputy, warning her of bias in Obamacare cases.
Terrence Jeffrey of CNS News reports: “Exactly two months before the Judiciary Committee Republicans asked Kagan [if she worked on Obamacare], her top deputy, Neal Katyal, hadwritten her a memo informing her that she had ‘substantially participated’ in Golden Gate Restaurant Association v. San Francisco—a case that Kagan’s own office tied to Obamacare…
“On May 28, 2010, 15 days after Katyal sent Kagan this memo informing her that she had ‘substantially participated’ in the Golden Gate case–and a month before Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings started–Kagan’s office submitted a 26-page brief to the Supreme Court in the case. The brief cited [Obamacare] by name 12 times and referred to it more generally as ‘the federal legislation’ or “the new federal legislation’ an additional 6 times… [Chaps note: This contradicts Kagan’s lies under oath saying “No” she didn’t help Obamacare.]
“Edwin S. Kneedler, the deputy solicitor general handling the Golden Gate case twice alerted Kagan’s top deputy, Katyal, about the connection between it and PPACA and thatKagan had been involved in the case…
Kneedler’s email says: “Golden Gate — I discussed with Elena several times [here about one full line of text is redacted] Especially now that health care has passed, she may not want to be involved in that brief.”
Jeffrey asks: “What was in the redacted text immediately proceeding Kneedler’s statement that ‘now that health care has passed’ Kagan ‘may not want to be involved in that brief’?”
At least a dozen other secret, heavily redacted emails prove Kagan helped defend Obamacare, all linked and analyzed by Jeffrey here.
Let’s take a stand, and send a message DIRECTLY TO KAGAN and Congress too.
Four Senators demand Kagan recuse Obamacare. We demand impeachment.
After YOU helped fax thousands of petitions, four top-ranking Republican Senators agreed with us and demanded Justice Kagan recuse herself from the Obamacare case. In a letter signed by Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY), Whip John Kyl (R-AZ), Ranking Judiciary Grassley (R-IA), and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), all four rebuked President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, who has obstructed justice and blocked Congressional investigation of Kagan’s bias in the Obamacare case.
“Federal law requires recusal from a case if a judicial officer of the United States ‘has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case or controversy.’ 28 U.S.C. § 455(b)(3). In addition, a federal judge must disqualify herself from participating in a matter if her ‘impartiality might reasonably be questioned.’ Id. at § 455(a). It appears that former Solicitor General Kagan’s participation in the Obama Administration’s defense of the PPACA may satisfy both requirements for recusal,” the letter said. You can read the Senators’ full letter here.
Sadly A.G. Holder continues to stonewall Congressional investigations. “Unfortunately, your Department has rejected all Congressional oversight requests for information about her role in the Obama Administration’s defense of this law [Obamacare].” While Holder blocks any justice to help Obama, Kagan scored the touchdown by defending Obamacare, and now she acts as the “instant replay referee” to find no flags on her own play.
Her “impartiality” is obviously flawed, as the Senators point to a March 2009 email Kagan sent to DOJ Legal Adviser Larry Tribe concerning Obamacare: Entitled, “Fingers and toes crossed today!” Kagan emails, “I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing.” [How impartial can she be when ruling on this law?]
Political analyist Dick Morris agrees: “As Solicitor-General, Kagan was the point person for defending the constitutionality of federal law before the Supreme Court. She was, in effect, the lawyer supporting the Health Care law. How can she now sit in judgment on it?” Morris has also delivered 19,000+ petitions to Congress, along with our 63,000+.
Can you help us reach 100,000 fax petitions to Congress? Please sign our fax petition.
85 groups + 60,000 petitions demand Kagan recuse Obamacare.
I have amazing news to report. We can stop Obamacare and many tax-funded abortions!
I leapt out in faith and spent $30,000 on this week’s campaign, renting big email lists reaching millions of patriots (seriously I’m losing my shirt, so please donate here), but our emails have gone viral and we’ve already faxed 60,000 petitions to Washington DC. We’ve buried in fax paper all 535 Senators, Congressmen, (and the Supreme Court) demanding the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, who still refuses to recuse herself from ruling on the Obamacare case, after she personally defended and lobbied to pass that law while working in the White House.
Now leaders of 85 groups represent millions of Americans (including me, Chaps, representing YOU) signed a joint letter to House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), as drafted by our dear friend Philip Jauregui, President of the Judicial Action Group, including a veritable “Who’s Who” of Christian and conservative activists, including Family Research Council, Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America, and many tea party groups. You can read our full letter and list of 85 groups here.
The new letter explains we have a “basis to question the impartiality of Justice Kagan if she were permitted to prepare the defense of a case as an advocate and then switch roles and judge the defense of that same case as a justice.” [Chaps’ comment: Imagine going to court, and suddenly the defense lawyer takes over as judge? How unfair and biased! ]
“Attorney General Holder has failed to comply with your repeated requests [to subpoena Kagan’s records] and has characterized your reasonable requests to determine the facts in this matter as ‘unseemly.’ We disagree, and believe that it would be ‘unseemly’ for thesystem of ‘checks and balances’ to fail to operate in this landmark matter. Accordingly, we respectfully request that you immediately hold hearings to investigate the full extent to which Justice Elena Kagan was involved in preparing the legal defense of the PPACA during her former service as Solicitor General.” [Chaps wants hearings, impeachment!]
Friends, we fought against the pro-abortion funding provisions of Obamacare by faxing over a million petitions to Congress. We fought against Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court with nearly a quarter million petitions. We helped persuade 26 state attorneys general to join the lawsuit NFIB v. Sebelius to defeat Obamacare in court.
We’re now joining the final battle at the Supreme Court of the United States, to defeat Obamacare permanently, but one biased Justice Elena Kagan could decide our fate.
I need 10 or 20 folks to please donate $500 or $1,000 extra this week, just to break even. (If anybody thinks I’m getting rich here, they’re mistaken.) Help us help America!
Let’s take one final stand against Obamacare. Take action today…
Friends, our Supreme Court will soon decide if Obamacare and it’s pro-abortion tax-funding is Constitutional. Let’s take a stand today, and demand Justice Kagan recuse herself, or face impeachment hearings.
God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt
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Disclaimer: The views of Chaplain Klingenschmitt, who was vindicated by Congress after being honorably but involuntarily discharged from the Navy in 2007 after facing court-martial for praying “in Jesus name” in uniform, are his own personal views, not the views of any political party, government, or organization.
