Kagan's Goldman Sachs Ties Won't Hurt Supreme Court Chances, White House Says

WASHINGTON—The White House said Friday that Elena Kagan's membership on an advisory panel for the securities firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc. wouldn't disqualify her for a position on the Supreme Court.

Ms. Kagan, the solicitor general, is considered a top contender to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. President Barack Obama is expected to announce his nomination next week. An announcement could come "at any moment," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday.

From 2005 to 2008, Ms. Kagan was a paid member of the Research Advisory Council of Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute, according to financial-disclosure reports she filed after being appointed to her current job. The form shows she was paid $10,000 in 2008, when she was dean of Harvard Law School.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Goldman in a civil suit of failing to disclose to clients in a deal involving mortgage-related securities that a hedge fund betting on the mortgages to fail helped design the product. Goldman denies the charges.

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Since Goldman Sachs is the heart of the system rot.

working lawyer if this is all she got from goldman sachs it's not much.

They're not called Goldmine Sacked for nothing.

it is the fact that she appears to be a Neo-Con that should have us all concerned.

That coin being the right wing mentality that has been systematically destroying this country for the last 30 years.

need a Goldman Sachs connection to get anywhere in this administration.

I would like to see someone like Elizabeth Warren on the SC, someone who isn't beholden in any way to the Corps that are at the root of most of this country's current problems.

:rofl: That really tore it... :rofl:

doesn't think it's a problem for her.

"During her confirmation hearing last week, Elena Kagan, the nominee for solicitor general, said that someone suspected of helping finance Al Qaeda should be subject to battlefield law — indefinite detention without a trial — even if he were captured in a place like the Philippines rather than in a physical battle zone."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/us/politics/18policy.html?_r=1

When was we going to get some real Democrats in position of power in our government?

Supreme Court.

There are no emoticons strong enough for this...

I give up.

Sell the country and let it go at that.

Do you have the word nazi permanently imprinted in your brain?

I noticed that you didn't refute what she said in her confirmation hearing. Some things are tough to live with, non?

What Nazi are you arguing Nazi?

No, I've heard it 100 times already, doesn't change anything at this point.

If she's got Goldman Sachs ties, she's a shoe-in. They'll welcome her as one of their own.

Now THAT's cynical! :rofl:

Her hiring record and this mean she won't likely win confirmation and was a bad choice, IMHO.

not know enough about Ms. K to make a judgment at this time.

It's a simple enough question for me.

...and we'll be broke clear through our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren. You know, way before then, though, we'll all have been penured by the manor lords to the debtor's prison.

Swell people. Henry Paulson, Banker to the BFEE. These swells.

That is my question and I am beginning to wonder about Obama. WTF is he thinking?

Why else would the WH Admin even say a word?