Senate Judiciary Set to Vote on Kagan Tuesday; Nominee Will Not Step Aside on Health Care Cases (261 hits)
'I urge the Senate to reject the politicization of medical science and vote no on the Kagan nomination'
With hours remaining before they vote on Elena Kagan — who was nominated to fill the seat of outgoing Associate Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee received new testimony from the nominee that she will hear any challenge to President Obama's health care law.
This is despite Kagan's own admission during her hearing that she was involved in a meeting which discussed Florida v. Health and Human Services — a lawsuit initiated by 13 attorneys general on the constitutionality of the bill. A separate lawsuit filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is also working its way through the courts.
Kagan tried again to minimize her role in the meeting — and her own words — stating the case was "briefly mentioned" and, therefore, didn't rise to the level of recusal.
