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Kagan, Marshall, and Abortion

• Archives
• Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
• Americans United for Life

In April of 1988, Elena Kagan wrote to Justice Thurgood Marshall that a court order that mandated taxpayers to pay for the abortions of inmates was “well-intentioned.”[1] The case involved female inmates in the Monmouth County jail who wanted the… Read More

Kagan and Pro-life Speech

• Archives
• Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
• Americans United for Life

The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,[1] the first case argued (and lost) by Elena Kagan as Solicitor General before the Supreme Court, has quickly become one of the most misunderstood decisions in recent history.  The… Read More

Kagan and Agenda-driven Judging

• Archives
• Monday, June 21st, 2010
• Americans United for Life

Over the course of the next month, you will hear from Americans United for Life and others that Elena Kagan will be an “agenda-driven judge.”  The questions become—what does it mean to be such a judge?  Why is this cause… Read More

Are Kagan’s College-age Pro-Abortion Ideals Animating Her Still?

• Archives
• Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
• Americans United for Life

The late futurist Herman Kahn once said there are two periods in life when one’s ideas, attitudes, and convictions are powerfully shaped: before one is six years old, and when one is in college. Indeed, according to Kahn, these are… Read More

Elena Kagan, the Background and Request to Postpone Hearings

• Archives
• Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
• Americans United for Life

The legal team of Americans United for Life has assembled the following list of concerns regarding the background of Elena Kagan:

The “Judicial Hero” Memo – In 2006, Elena Kagan called Aharon Barak “my judicial hero. He is the judge… Read More

Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s “Judicial Hero”

• Politics
• Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
• Americans United for Life

Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s “Judicial Hero”, Aharon Barak, is a problem for her confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2006, Elena Kagan, the President’s nominee to the Supreme Court, called Aharon Barak “my judicial hero. He is the judge… Read More

The Speaker, the Slaughter Solution, and the Spin

• Archives
• Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
• Americans United for Life

We have a Bill…
Health care reform efforts are in full swing this week for the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives. Taking her cue from the President, Speaker Pelosi is attempting to paint health care reform as a… Read More

Next Steps to Fighting Abortion in Health Care Reform

• Archives
• Monday, October 12th, 2009
• Americans United for Life

With all the twists and turns in the health care debate, we keep hearing the question: what’s next? So I wanted to take a minute and sketch out for you what we know from our meetings here in the Nation’s… Read More

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Freedom of Speech by Refusing to Hear “Choose Life Illinois” Appeal

• Archives
• Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
• Americans United for Life

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal in Choose Life Illinois v. White, upholding a Seventh Circuit ruling that the Illinois system for approving specialty plates was not discriminatory.
The case was filed in 2004 after citizens… Read More

Senate Votes Down Key Anti-Abortion Amendments

• Politics
• Thursday, October 1st, 2009
• Americans United for Life

[Yesterday], in a vote of 10-13 in the Senate Finance Committee, the Hatch Amendment #C14 was defeated.  The amendment would have explicitly prohibited federal funding and coverage of abortions.  The Committee also voted down an amendment by Senator Hatch that… Read More