Kagan Compared the NRA to the KKK

by Stephan Tawney on June 18, 2010

We already knew that Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, isn’t a fan of the Second Amendment. But what we didn’t know is that the potential justice thinks of gun rights organizations as occupying the same vein as the Klu Klux Klan.

Robert VerBruggen of National Review has been digging through the documentation on Kagan released by the Clinton presidential library, or at least what documentation the library has been willing to release. Here’s what he found:

National Review has learned that in 1996, Kagan apparently tied the NRA to the KKK — yes, the KKK — while debating the Clinton administration’s position on a bill.

The bill in question was the Volunteer Protection Act, which, when it was passed and signed the following year, protected some non-profits’ volunteer workers from tort liability in certain cases. The administration worried that it would apply to volunteers from unlikable non-profits.

Two documents discovered at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and obtained byNational Review suggest that Kagan was involved in these discussions. One does not contain her name, but the handwriting appears to be hers. (You can see an example of Kagan’s handwriting here.) It has the name of administration colleague Fran Allegra at the top, and lists two “Bad guy orgs” that might be covered — the NRA and the KKK.

The second does have Kagan’s name on it; it is a memo from Allegra to Kagan. Allegra reports that he checked the IRS’s “Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170(c)” — the list of tax-exempt organizations, which, he says, are the only organizations the bill would cover — and that neither the NRA nor the KKK was on it. “If you have other names you want me to run down in the Cumulative List, I would be glad to check them out,” he adds, suggesting that Kagan requested the initial check of the NRA and the KKK.

The National Rifle Association is a peaceful organization consisting of individuals from across the political spectrum, dedicated to protecting the freedoms guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

The Klu Klux Klan is a violent hate group and domestic terror organization that believes in the supremacy of one race and targets minorities.

And Kagan has the gonads to place these two organizations in the same grouping?

If she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Kagan will serve on the Supreme Court for life. She will be one of 9 justices who have immense power in determining the future of this country. This is the court that can, in an afternoon, completely throw out years and years of accepted law if five of the justices determine the law to conflict with the Constitution.

Elana Kagan must not be confirmed.



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