Limbaugh Issues Ridiculous Call To Remove Kagan From Supreme Court
Written by Hardeep Dhillon
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Commenting on the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Rush Limbaugh took time out from an offensive rant about the LGBT community to suggest that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan be “removed from the Supreme Court.”
The segue? Kagan testified during her confirmation hearings that she had not barred military recruiters for the Judge Advocate General corps from campus as dean of Harvard Law School, but now there is news that Harvard is going to welcome back Reserve Officers Training Corps programs to campus.
Now you know and I know that JAG recruiters and ROTC programs are not the same thing. Rush apparently does not. But regardless, Kagan never banned either ROTC or JAG recruiters from Harvard Law School's campus.
LIMBAUGH: Alright, from CNN: “The presidents of Harvard and Yale Universities have expressed interest” -- I mentioned this yesterday -- “have expressed interest in ROTC programs now coming back to campus after Congress repealed the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy that has banned openly gay and lesbian service members. The universities' statements come five months after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, then a Supreme Court nominee, came under criticism by Republican senators who complained that she actively tried to block military recruiters from Harvard Law Screwl when she was dean there because of the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy.
”Kagan and the White House have strongly defended her actions, saying that while she opposed the military's policy, she never kept recruiters off the university."
Well, that simply is not true. And yet, now DADT has officially been repealed, Harvard is saying it will welcome ROTC back. What a coincidence. Now, I have a serious question. You want the inner Limbaugh? Here is the inner Limbaugh. Does this mean that Elena Kagan can be removed from the Supreme Court since it's now clear whether she lied to the Senate during her confirmation hearings?"
Perhaps the inner Limbaugh will be dismayed to hear, Kagan had nothing to do with Harvard's decision to remove ROTC from campus. Sen. John McCain and Sean Hannity forwarded this claim back in May. But we really have not heard much about it from anyone else until now.
Maybe this is due to the fact that Kagan became dean of Harvard Law School in 2002 and ROTC was removed from campus in the late 1960s when Kagan was in grade school.
Furthermore, Kagan did not ban military recruiters from Harvard Law School's campus. Moreover, DADT repeal will not have any effect on military recruiters at Harvard because they are already on the campus.
So, to answer Rush Limbaugh's question -- no, we cannot remove Elena Kagan from the Supreme Court over DADT repeal because she did not lie. But there is someone else who is lying in the midst of all this. Can you guess who?