{"id":5354,"date":"2010-05-17T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2010-05-17T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:45:20","slug":"kagans-white-house-paper-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5354\/kagans-white-house-paper-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagan&#8217;s White House Paper Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan lacks in the way of academic writing, she (apparently) more than compensates for with her lawyerly output during her time in the Clinton White House Counsel\u2019s Office.\u00a0 Recalling that former President George W. Bush shared over 50,000 pages of material associated with now Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217;s time as a lawyer in the Reagan White House, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/Will-the-Senate-see-Kagan_Ss-long-paper-trail_-93725434.html#ixzz0oEk8NGSl\" target=\"_blank\">Byron York of the <em>Washington D.C. Examiner<\/em><\/a> reports which way precedent points in divulging Kagan\u2019s work product.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is now a precedent that a White House lawyer&#8217;s materials will be produced,&#8221; says Bradford Berenson, an associate counsel in the Bush White House. &#8220;I think it will be very difficult for the Obama administration, given everything they&#8217;ve said about transparency and openness, to withhold these documents.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before anyone starts salivating over the thought of reading thousands of legal memos, remember that the current Oval Office occupant is not inclined to share information.\u00a0 Unlike President Bush, Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20005146-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody\" target=\"_blank\">can\u2019t be bothered to take a single question<\/a> from the press after signing the Freedom of the Press Act.<\/p>\n<p>Constitutional controversy over executive privilege, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan lacks in the way of academic writing, she (apparently) more than compensates for with her lawyerly output during her time in the Clinton White House Counsel\u2019s Office.\u00a0 Recalling that former President George W. Bush shared over 50,000 pages of material associated with now Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217;s time as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,591,1287,491,941,92],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-elena-kagan","tag-executive-privilege","tag-george-w-bush","tag-john-roberts","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}