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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

White House: Kagan Broke No Law Restricting Military Recruiters At Harvard

The White House will not explore whether Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan violated the law when she did not allow military recruiters at Harvard Law School.

“I don’t think anybody in the White House Counsel’s office had to research that,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on Monday. “I don’t think anybody has ever brought anything to say she has ever been in violation of the law.”

A conservative advocacy group, however, says Kagan’s refusal to comply with federal law by cooperating with military recruiters at Harvard is reason enough for the Senate to reject her nomination as Supreme Court justice.

As dean of Harvard Law School, Kagan prohibited military recruiting on the campus because she disagreed with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prohibits homosexuals from openly serving in the military. Kagan argued that such a rule violated Harvard’s anti-discrimination policy.

As CNSNews.com reported last week, former Judge Advocate General Kyndra Rotunda, a Guantanamo Bay prosecutor and author of the book “Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials,” says that Kagan did break the law.

And Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) also said Kagan might have violated the law.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sure, "no law broken".

That's the same attitude that has given us no indictments 2 years later against the bankster-gangsters.

The bigger issue may be her shielding of the Saudi Royal Family for liability for 9/11, as Solicitor General.

Maybe that's REALLY how she got the appointment.

Anonymous said...

9:00 She was Solicitor General under Bush?