Elena Kagan supported Bushler's war-on-terror policies

[LittleBlue]

"WASHINGTON — Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners.

She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with Al Qaeda and suggested the law of war allows the government to capture and hold alleged terrorists without charges.
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If confirmed as U.S. solicitor general, Kagan, 48, will defend the administration's legal policy in the courts.

During the Bush administration, the solicitor general argued for the White House's war-on-terrorism policies, including the president's decision to imprison foreign fighters and alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/11/nation/na-solicitor-general11

Want everyone to be aware of what Kagan is about. She is another Scalia on human rights issues. I'm posting only because people in other threads did not know this, nor that she took $10k from Goldman Sachs.

[Hardrada]

1. A judicial neocon. The last thing we need.

[FrenchieCat]

6. The article you are reading was written BEFORE Ms. Kagen was

confirmed as Solicitor General. Go and read the article and look at the date,
and realize that the Solicitor General they are talking about IS NOT Kagen.

Damn,
folks don't check shit around here. :crazy:

[ProSense]

2. "She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month."

You do realize that the comment you bolded has nothing to do with Kagan, don't you?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. As Solicitor General, she argued against Governor Don Siegelman in a brief to the Supreme Court,

maintaining that his case didn't merit a new trial despite new evidence of corruption that convicted him.

[FrenchieCat]

4. This part...."During the Bush administration, the solicitor general argued ...."

Kagan wasn't Solicitor General then....
so was that written to confuse? :shrug:

[LeftyAndProud60]

5. I actually agree w/ this. My problem is her views of Wall St and Social Policy. NT

[FrenchieCat]

7. and those views are?