Kagan on the Supreme Court?

Friday, May 1, 2009, Institute for Public Accuracy

Kagan on the Supreme Court?

For background, see Washington Post: "Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out
of Iraq: Practice Is Called Serious Breach of Geneva Conventions"

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Solicitor General Elena Kagan is widely reported to be a leading contender for the Supreme Court position being vacated by David Souter.

FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle@law.uiuc.edu
Professor of law at the University of Illinois, Boyle is author of "Tackling America's Toughest Questions." He said today: "As dean of the Harvard Law School, Kagan hired Bush's outgoing director of the Office of Legal Counsel, Jack Goldsmith, as a law professor. Goldsmith is regarded by myself and many others in the field as a war criminal. He wrote some of the memos that attempted to make violations of the Geneva Conventions appear legal. Kagan actually bragged about 'how proud' she was to have hired Goldsmith after one of his criminal Department of Justice memoranda was written up in the Washington Post.
"Then, during the course of her Senate confirmation hearings as Solicitor General, Kagan explicitly endorsed the Bush administration's bogus category of 'enemy combatant,' whose implementation has been a war crime in its own right. Now in her new job as U.S. Solicitor General, Kagan is quarterbacking the continuation of the Bush administration's illegal and unconstitutional positions in U.S. federal court litigation around the country, including in the U.S. Supreme Court."
Boyle is a former chair of the Harvard Law School Fund Campaign for Greater Illinois and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

Wanted Man Turns Himself in Through Project Clean Slate

TheSkannerNews on YouTube: Alex Campbell, facing a warrant for his arrest after years of gang-related activity, is moments away from turning himself in to Multnomah County Sheriffs deputies Friday, April 3, 2009, with the help of Project Clean Slate and its staff Roy Jay and Joe Nunn. His mother Betty Campbell and his girlfriend back him up as he faces the glare of television cameras -- after one of the stations, Fox News, named him the night before as an "armed and dangerous" criminal. Video by Lisa Loving

Sources on Swine Flu

Institute for Public Accuracy PM Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Swine Flu: Budgets and Immigration Status

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DAVID KATZ, DavidK@communicarehc.org
Katz is a family physician at CommuniCare Health Centers in Yolo County, California. He said today: "We have had decreased capacity in our clinics in dealing with something like swine flu because we've had county and state cutbacks over the last year. ...
"CommuniCare is a network of community health centers that cares for the underserved population of the county. I'm concerned about budgetary decisions being made in many counties in California that exclude undocumented county residents from the county-financed safety net health systems. County supervisors in Yolo County will hold a public hearing on May 5 in Woodland, California to solicit legally required citizen input on their proposed exclusion of Yolo County residents from the County YCHIP program on the basis of immigration status.
"When you have such initiatives, as we do in our county, you start shifting health care costs to hospital emergency rooms and hospitals. It is quite possible that these costs will overwhelm our community hospitals, resulting in one or more going out of business.
"I am concerned that separating out one segment of the California population from access to our health care system damages everyone. It's obviously bad for the undocumented who have to worry about paying inordinate amounts of money or not going in for care altogether. But it affects everyone else too. If undocumented parents don't get prompt treatment for infectious illnesses, they could pass along infections such as swine flu, TB or whooping cough to other county residents. In short, where health care is for the few, we find more health problems for all in the community."