Thomas, Kagan asked to sit out health care case

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[olezip]

Republican lawmakers recently have stepped up their effort against Kagan, complaining that the Justice Department has not fully revealed Kagan’s involvement in planning the response to challenges to the law. Kagan was Obama’s solicitor general, the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, until he nominated her to the high court last year.

Kagan was directly involved with supporting Obamacare. She mislead or lied to the lawmakers who approved her selection as a member of the Supreme Court.

Mr. Thomas has a spouse who works. He was NOT directly involved with the Obamacare issue. The Democrats are loud and boisterous over nothing, maybe to distract from the Kagan issue. She should resign in disgrace.

[RipSawyer]

I don’t see that they have a point at all about Thomas, they are simply saying that as a bona fide conservative justice and a strict constructionist it can be assumed that he will vote against Obama care. That is absolutely no reason to expect that he should excuse himself. In fact the matter is so unconstitutional that any justice who would even consider finding it constitutional should resign. Of course that applies to the bulk of federal law as it exists. If we actually went BACK to the constitution most of the federal government would have to be shut down.

[RipSawyer]

First you would have to agree on definitions for every word in the constitution! Too many now believe that “make no law” means make all kinds of law, “shall not be infringed” means shall be infringed in every possible way, silence means consent, “promote the general welfare” means socialism, “a Republican form of government” means democracy, fascism, dictatorship or whatever etc. If the document had no more meaning than MOST Americans assign to it and I don’t mean just the left, I include many who call themselves strict conservatives, there would have been no reason to write it, let alone struggle for months and haggle over every word. A simple, “Do what you wish, after all the blood, sweat, tears and agony of a revolution we have no energy left to worry about setting down rules for the future”, would have sufficed.

[goat granny]

Kagan yes, Thomas no,