Politico
By JOSH GERSTEIN 5/19/10 2:15 PM EDT
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was simply trying to carry out President Bill Clinton’s policies when she served as an adviser in his White House and wasn’t necessarily advancing her own policy views, former Clinton aides argued Wednesday in a conference call organized by the Obama White House.
“Her role was really to implement policies that were set by President Clinton,” former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said.
The comments from the Clinton aides appeared intended to counter a series of news reports about White House memos from the Clinton era that appeared to show Kagan on the centrist side of policy debates on issues such as abortion and race. ...
Memoranda from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock suggest that the debate went beyond action versus dialogue. Some of the smattering of documents presently available to the public suggest Kagan urged Clinton to reject efforts to pursue race-conscious policy measures and instead put her weight behind attempts to address racial inequities through broader policies aimed at the poor and disadvantaged.
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