Clinton Library Releases Kagan Documents
[Guest post by DRJ]
Have any spare time? Dive into the 74 boxes of Kagan documents that were recently released by the Clinton Library.
— DRJ
[Guest post by DRJ]
Have any spare time? Dive into the 74 boxes of Kagan documents that were recently released by the Clinton Library.
— DRJ
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Before I accepted the assignment to wade through those boxes, I’d want a substantial life insurance policy, with my kids as beneficiaries, and with a double-indemnity bonus if my cause of death were to be “terminal boredom” and/or “terminal outrage.” My guess is that the materials in those boxes are split about 98%/2% between one or the other of those two categories.
Beldar (75c3bc) — 6/5/2010 @ 2:06 pmHeh. I’m sure it’s boring and I didn’t plan to read it either, but I started looking around and it’s funny the things you run into. From Boxes 21-30, there are 6860 pages that apparently relate to Education. I haven’t downloaded all the file but I couldn’t help but notice this Clinton response to a proposed 1998 Amendment by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to allow single-sex public school classrooms (at page 7):
Ten years later, Democrats have no problem with changing all of health care that way.
DRJ (d43dcd) — 6/5/2010 @ 2:16 pmFrom the same link at page 86, Elena Kagan added the following handwritten notes in response to a memo about the status of efforts to establish a single-sex boys school in New York City (a goal vigorously opposed by Democratic-leaning women’s groups and supporters, but something President and Mrs. Clinton were open to):
DRJ (d43dcd) — 6/5/2010 @ 2:40 pmThis doesn’t have much to do with Kagan but on page 96-97, the staff asks her to look at an interesting problem. A new Clinton proposal authorized an abatement of student loan interest if students took time off for service commitments. When he introduced the program, President Clinton referred to service projects sponsored by a religious group headed by Rev. Tony Compolo as an example of projects that would qualify. Subsequently, the Education Department decided that religious projects were not qualifying projects because they violated the church/state divide. The concern was that when Clinton announced the proposal, he “deviated from the prepared text in a way that made it sound like this new proposal applied ONLY to religious service.”
I can see why they were worried. Clinton announced it as a religious only program and the Education Department rules that everyone but religious programs can participate.
DRJ (d43dcd) — 6/5/2010 @ 2:50 pm