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Our lawyer friend Larry Klayman [pictured above] with Freedom Watch has filed a formal “motion to reconsider” with the U.S. Supreme Court, demanding Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from hearing the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius in June.
Worldnet Daily reports: “In a motion to reconsider filed [1 Feb], Klayman said the issue of judicial integrity is even more important that the substance of the Obamacare dispute itself.
“The ‘greater’ issue is the integrity of the Supreme Court itself and whether or not it will adhere to and respect centuries old rules of judicial ethics, which require a judge to recuse herself when she has a conflict of interest and when to continue on the case would create even the appearance of partiality,” Klayman said in the motion.
“He wrote that in addition to Kagan’s ‘conflict of interest’ because of her work in the White House, allegedly on behalf of Obamacare, she also reportedly advocated for Obamacare in another case.
“This act constitutes not only a conflict of interest, but creates more than the appearance of partiality, for which she must recuse herself or be disqualified by the court,” he wrote.
“If the Supreme Court does not adhere to accepted rules of judicial ethics in this case, and others, it will lose credibility as the ‘People’s Supreme Court,’ and indeed its ultimate decision herein will be forever held illegitimate and tainted by judicial misconduct. This is why the issue of Justice Kagan’s recusal or disqualification is even more important than the underlying issues of this Obamacare case itself. It will have a lasting effect on the integrity of the Supreme Court and how Americans view their court,” he said.
“He noted that already in the United States, ‘with the rise of citizens’ movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party, Americans are already feeling disenfranchised from judicial and other government institutions, such that they are resorting to civil disobedience and if that does not work perhaps even revolution if things do not change.'”
[Chaps comment: Klayman is right on. Justice Kagan will disparage the entire court and ruin the reputation of the institution itself, destroying not just her own integrity but the integrity of the Supreme Court and the American Justice System itself. We must demand she recuse herself, for the sake of defending the integrity of the Constitution itself.]
Breaking: Supreme Court rejects demand for Kagan to recuse Obamacare
CNN reports “The Supreme Court has turned aside a motion from a political advocacy group that sought to argue that Justice Elena Kagan should not participate in the upcoming blockbuster appeals over the constitutionality of health care reform [aka Obamacare.]
“The justices denied the request from Freedom Watch without comment [last month]. Kagan herself did not get involved in this particular motion.
“The court’s brief order all but assures that the newest justice will participate in the late March arguments and eventually rule on the cases’ merits. Similar calls for recusal from other groups have been directed at Justice Clarence Thomas.
“Larry Klayman, head of Freedom Watch, wanted to argue the recusal issue himself as part of the three days of public oral arguments scheduled for March 26-28. There, lawyers for the Obama administration and a coalition of 26 states and private groups will separately plead their case on the health care law’s legal limits.
“Klayman said that while the argument request was denied, he still thinks Kagan should pull out of the debate. ‘The justices work for us, and the Supreme Court is the people’s court, not the justices’ court,’ he said. ‘I hope that they will sober up and do the right thing and disqualify Justice Kagan from sitting on the Obamacare case, as she has a textbook conflict of interest given her involvement in the drafting of, and supporting, the legislation, while she was an official of the Obama administration at the Department of Justice.'”
[Chaps comment: Today’s ruling is yet another example of Washington corruption at the highest levels of the U.S. Supreme Court, as Justice Kagan flagrantly thumbs her nose at the law she swore to uphold. Four U.S. Senators agree with me, saying: “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 Senators’ letter said.]
We must continue to demand Kagan’s impeachment, and full hearings on her corruption.
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?
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 the system 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!
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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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