Sen. Hatch: Kagan should sit out health care case

[Akoto]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, an opponent of the recently enacted health care overhaul, says Justice Elena Kagan should not take part in the widely expected Supreme Court consideration of the new law.

Hatch's call is part of the broad legal and political maneuvering on both sides for the most favorable conditions surrounding court review of President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy accomplishment.

-snip-

Hatch said he is sure that Kagan participated in discussions about the law and challenges to it while she served in the Justice Department as Obama's top Supreme Court lawyer. Hatch told Fox News that he believes Kagan "should recuse herself," although he noted the justice alone will make that determination.

The Utah senator also voted against Kagan's confirmation to the Supreme Court in August.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_HEALTH_CARE_OVERHAUL?SITE=FLDAY&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[katsy]

1. Katsy: Orrin hatch should go pfhuck himself.

That is all.

[laylah]

22. +a gazillion (how many zeros would that be?) nt

[Scruffy1]

26. Not enough

[Swede Atlanta]

2. Shut up!!!

Orrin? What kind of fucking name is that?

For all the crimes he has committed during his time in the Senate he needs to shut his piehole.

Fuck him........

[boppers]

15. It's a river in England, it's an English name.

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Orrin

[martymar64]

18. I think Senator Hatch misspelled his own first name

Isn't the correct spelling A-S-S-H-O-L-E?

[Judi Lynn]

25. Either that or "Orifice Hatch." n/t

[karynnj]

3. Scalia was a hunting buddy of Cheney

Did he ever recluse himself?

This is likely a good sign. She is very likely on the side of the law being constitutional. If they had 5, would he be pushing this?

[lobodons]

4. Typical Republican message switch

The real story is the impeachment of Clarence Thomas!!! Forget this non story of Kagen!! As long as we talk about this we take our eyes off the real story.

[unkachuck]

5. hatchet....

....are you still there? When are you going to retire, or die?

....I'm telling ya hatch-baby, you're on the wrong side of this, think about it..

"...he won a federal judge's ruling in December against the law's requirement that most Americans buy health insurance."

....if Obama and the feds can make us buy shitty corporate health insurance just think of what your next dubya could make us buy....crappy cars, crumby TVs, worthless newspapers, broken toasters...the mind boggles at the endless possibilities....

[Tx4obama]

6. Clarence Thomas should sit out since his wife is a lobbyist. n/t

[Cleita]

21. +10

[PoliticAverse]

7. Kagan has already sat out many cases she had participated in as Solicitor General n/t

[DeSwiss]

8. This decrepit chump.....

...has been curiously silent about the thoroughly corrupted Repuke bastard and federal judge Feldman -- with all his oil stock options hanging from his pockets -- who sits in judgment over the deep water drilling moratorium case.

And where is the Democratic counter? *crickets*


- I'm am truly sick of ALL these bastards......

[goforit]

9. And what about Clarence Thomas? Mr Snatch.

[nevergiveup]

10. Orrin should sit out the rest of his term.

[defendandprotect]

11. And Scalia and Cheney -- ? The pervert Clarence Thomas - ? Roberts who led the fascist rally to

stop the vote counting in Miami-Dade County which was mandated by the Florida State

Supreme Court? 180,000 votes never counted? A fascist rally sponsored/paid for by

the GOP? And no interference from the Florida police who should have been guarding

the Miami-Dade Election HQs?

Hatch is a right wing fundi pit bull -- primary on the panel when Biden permitted

the right wing to attack Prof. Anita Hill viciously!

[CBHagman]

23. Thomas's wife is involved in efforts to repeal the health care law.

Here's the scoop on Ginni Thomas:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48812.html

While Thomas was well-known in conservative circles as an aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, as a midlevel staffer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and at The Heritage Foundation and as the spouse of one of the court's most conservative justices, she did not draw much attention until 2009, when she started speaking at tea party rallies.

Late that year, she established Liberty Central, a group she envisioned as forming a bridge between the conservative establishment and the anti-establishment tea party movement. It was a new role and a new measure of prominence for Thomas, and it marked the beginning of a string of headaches for her and her husband.

Legal ethicists asserted that Thomas’s role could compromise her husband’s impartiality, especially since the group is not required to report its donors and could have benefitted from the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling last year in which Justice Thomas sided with the majority in a decision that allowed corporations to fund campaign ads, often without disclosing their contributions.

(SNIP)

But the Thomases came under particular scrutiny after POLITICO revealed that, while the Supreme Court was deliberating over the Citizens United case, Liberty Central had received a $550,000
anonymous contribution.

Here's a little something from the Liberty Central website:

http://www.libertycentral.org/take-actionrepublican-senators-pushing-for-obamacare-opt-out-and-full-blown-repeal-today-2011-02

UPDATE:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has officially offered the House-passed Health Care Repeal language as an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization (Amendment 13)

A vote on this amendment could occur as early as late this afternoon or early evening. Please Take Action now! Click here and tell your Senators to vote for this amendment!

The Senate Republicans are not backing down from their pledge to do whatever they must to undo the Healthcare debacle of 2010.


Yeah, no bias there. :sarcasm:

[blackspade]

12. Hatch can shut the fuck up.

He might have a point if he had asked the same of Fat Tony and LongDong Thomas.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. go cheney yourself hatch!

[NYC Liberal]

14. When Scalia starts recusing himself from cases he shouldn't be hearing

then we can talk.

[Democat]

16. Thomas and Roberts should sit out for being pro-health companies!

Democrats should speak up on this issue.

Democratic politicians usually let the Republicans have the only word in the media.

How many Americans know about Thomas' wife being a lobbyist? Everyone would know if Democratic senators would speak up about it.

[underpants]

17. Hatch should sit out

[Ter]

19. He will next year

He will lose in the Republican Primary.

[neverforget]

20. And Thomas should be removed from the SCOTUS

[muntrv]

24. Scalia didn't sit out Cheney's case regarding White House Energy Task Force.