White House Ignores Questions About Justice Kagan’s Support For Obamacare

Elena Kagan was questioned closely about her involvement, as counsel for the White House, in the passage of Obamacare and the subsequent preparations for legal challenges to the legislation in court. But since her confirmation hearings new emails have come to light illustrating Kagan’s clear bias in the matter.

Yesterday White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked about the emails, and tried to pretend like they don’t exist:

When asked about news reports concerning whether Kagan should recuse from judging the challenge to Obamacare, Carney said on Monday, “These issues were raised, just a year ago, in an expansive confirmation hearing. And those questions were questions were asked and answered both in the hearing itself and in written questions that were responded to in writing. It’s a mystery to me how this can suddenly be an issue a year later and they want to revisit what they just visited not that long ago.”

CNSNews.com then asked Carney, “Several e-mails have raised the issue on that?”

Carney responded, “Again, as I just said, all this stuff was examined, all of it was–questions were asked. She answered it and she responded in writing to this.”

CNSNews.com further said, “But the information that recently came out was not available–”

Carney interrupted, “It sure sounds like a political thing to revisit it a year later.”

CNSNews.com followed up: “But the information in the e-mails was not available during the confirmation.”

Carney did not respond and moved to another topic.

Keep in mind that it was the Obama administration itself which delayed the release of the emails in question. They weren’t released during Kagan’s confirmation hearings. Rather, groups like Judicial Watch and the Media Research Center had to sue the Obama administration to get their release.

Now we have the emails, but the Obama administration doesn’t want to acknowledge them.

Meanwhile, Justice Kagan is set to rule on the legality of Obamacare on the high court.