Senate Asks For Clinton Library Documents On Elena Kagan, Response Is It Would Be "Very Difficult"

The Clinton library is refusing to cooperate with the Senate which wants to see the documents authored by Elena Kagan. It seems they would rather keep the nominee with no paper trail a nominee with no paper trail. The LA Times reports that the "Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday set June 28 as the start date for hearings on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, and asked the Clinton presidential library to turn over voluminous documents related to Kagan's time as a top presidential assistant in the 1990s. But Terri Garner, director of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, said in an interview Wednesday that it would be 'very difficult' for her facility to meet the deadline. She said the records request is overly broad and 'too general in scope' and that, under the Presidential Records Act, attorneys for both Clinton and President Obama have the right to read and review each document before it is released to the committee."

Elena Kagan will very likely end up on the highest court in the land, a position of such immense power and influence as this court has taken upon itself very broad powers of judicial review, striking down and upholding federal and state laws regardless of what the Constitution itself demands. It is one of only nine jobs with life tenure, and there is no higher authority than the Supreme Court. The American people and the Senate have a right to see the documents authored by a nominee that is headed toward such a influential position. Excuses about the difficulty of providing those documents are inexcusable. Tweet