When it comes down to if Kagan recuses herself and if it is “fair” there is no fair in this game. We have to defeat Obamacare no matter what. The liberals always want to win ‘no matter what’ and until we start to play the same way we will always lose. We cannot afford to lose anymore, the country is at stake.

that means, even if we lost Kennedy, the decision would be 4-4 and the lower court rulings would stand (including the 11th Circuit’s holding the mandate unconstitutional). No way the other justices would want the law left in such chaos so there would be a strong incentive for Kennedy to vote with the conservatives.

that means, even if we lost Kennedy, the decision would be 4-4 and the lower court rulings would stand (including the 11th Circuit’s holding the mandate unconstitutional). No way the other justices would want the law left in such chaos so there would be a strong incentive for Kennedy to vote with the conservatives.

Help! I cannot find the link to create a diary (supposed to be under masthead). Sorry about the threadjack, need a lifeline here. Thanks.

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Kagan is very partisan, but the Court doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Justices talk informally…they are brethren, and will be so for years, decades, to come. Also, the Court wants to avoid being see as overly political.

Consensus is that the court divides 4-4-..with Kennedy the swing, deciding vote. Let’s assume that Kennedy is against Obamacare..let’s further speculate that Breyer is also ( there has been some recent commentary to suggest that)

So, we’re looking at a 5-4, or possibly a 6-3 decision to toss Obamacare.

Given that, why would Kagan, and the left,..expend the effort to defend her hearing the case?

Nope, she recuses, makes her a “saint”..judicially PURE for the rest of her life on the Court..and she has cover for all the rest of her partisan votes yet to come.

…based on past performance and past successes by the left.

The left wish list is Thomas alone, but their bottom line is to knock out both – hence the attempt to set up an media avalanche and/or try to establish equivalency between the two.

The left will never accept Kagan recusing alone.

It’s his court after all. I’m not a lawyer and I tried reading the rules of the Court (it’s hard…too much lawyer-speak), but can’t he do anything? Investigate? Something? If it were my court, I wouldn’t want ANY hint of shenanigans spoiling my Court’s reputation, and Kagan would be seeing my face everyday until this whole mess was straightened out!

I think Kagan lied when she answered specific questions posed to her in writing by the Judiciary Committee about any statements she had made on Obamacare. I think the e-mails that have come to light clearly show that her answers to those queries were not honest.

And certainly she should recuse herself from the Obamacare case. I hope the Republicans will raise a stink about this. She clearly has no business ruling on this issue because her objectivity is non-existent.

she may have, and why she should recuse herself from hearing this case as a sitting Supreme Court Justice.nike kobe

http://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2011/12/14/creators_oped
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/internal-doj-email-kagan-was-brought-loop-mark-levin-s-obamacare-complaint