Sorry Herman, but Sargent Lardo can't hear you ...
Posted on 11/17/2011 12:29:05 PM PST by justsaynomore
Republican presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain today requested that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from the upcoming Supreme Court hearing on Obamacare.
As a political appointee in President Obama’s Justice Department, Justice Kagan strongly advocated for the government takeover of health care and during the bill’s debate, then- Solicitor General Kagan actively supported a government-run system and sent a jubilant email to then-Justice Department colleague Laurence Tribe saying: ““I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing.”
“I request that Justice Kagan recuse herself immediately from hearing the Obamacare case,” Cain said. “Members of the highest court in the land should be impartial, strictly follow the Constitution and should not carry water for former employers in the White House.”
According to 28 USC 455, Supreme Court justices must recuse from “any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned” and if they have at any time “expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy” while he or she “served in governmental employment.”
For More Information: J.D. Gordon, Vice President of Communications Friends of Herman Cain, Inc. media@hermancain.com
Just saw this on my facebook feed. Go Herman!
Good for HC!!!
Cain needs to get a clue. He surely is informed enough to know that when she recuses, so does Justice Thomas. Mrs. Thomas is gainfully employed by an organization that actively opposes Obamacare, where the Thomas’ by virtue of her employment display a vested interest in the outcome, so the conflict of interest is too obvious in both cases, leaving it a draw. This is a landmark case that needs to be crystal clean at the bench does it not?
Smart move on his part.
Nice to see a high profile candidate with some balls to stand up to the extreme leftist Kagan.
take it to em Cain !
Stepping into the forefront of policy issues... good to see. Maybe Herman will steady his campaign.
Herman.. you can do this! Just don’t shoot from the hip!
Apples to oranges.
Agree. Nice to see a top tier candidate take it to this administration and all the leftists. Mr. Cain has guts.
I don’t agree. If Kagan’s husband had advocated for Obamacare, I wouldn’t expect her to recuse herself if she wasn’t otherwise involved.
If Thomas’s son was openly against obamacare, should he also have to recuse himself?
I don’t think spousal or family views should affect recusal and I don’t thing they’re covered under the statute.
Kagan can be shown to be in an offical capacity openly advocating a law and will then sit on that law’s legality. That’s a conflict of interest. What Thomas talks about with his wife over dinner is not a conflict of interest.
“I request that Justice Kagan recuse herself immediately from hearing the Obamacare case,” Cain said. “Members of the highest court in the land should be impartial, strictly follow the Constitution and should not carry water for former employers in the White House.”
But I know, GOPdrones around here never let the facts get in the way of a hysteric anti Cain rant.
Sorry Herman, but Sargent Lardo can't hear you ...
Still doing everything you can to distract attention away from Newt’s campaign ending screw up I see G.
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Stick a fork in Newt he is done.
Elena Kegface!
Justice Kagan’s ego won’t let her do it.
Yawn
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