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LAMONTAGNE CHALLENGE: FILIBUSTER ELENA KAGAN
Issues challenge to other Senate candidates to join him
in calling for filibuster of Kagan Supreme Court nomination
Manchester, N.H.—Ovide Lamontagne, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, today issued the following statement concerning the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
“As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to vote today on President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, it is clear that Ms. Kagan’s extreme views and record of political activism make her unfit to serve out a lifetime appointment on the highest court in the land. During her confirmation hearings, her far left positions have been made clear, including:
Her banning military recruiters from the Harvard Law school campus during her tenure as Dean;
Her hostility to our unalienable individual right to Keep and Bear Arms under the 2nd Amendment;
Her lobbying on behalf of partial-birth abortion, and editing medical testimony in 1996 to make a political statement;
Her expansive view of the Commerce Clause and the role of the federal government in every aspect of private activity;
I have taken ‘Ovide’s Oath’ – my 15 point pledge to the voters of New Hampshire, and one of my pledges is that I will support the judicial appointment of only those who have proven they will adhere to the Constitution, and not legislate from the bench. Ms. Kagan fails this fundamental test, and accordingly, as Senator I would not only vote ‘no’, but I would filibuster her nomination.
While I publicly opposed the nomination of judicial activist Sonia Sotomayor, my opponents either embraced her or were silent. Today, I am challenging my opponents to join me in my pledge to the voters of New Hampshire in calling for the filibuster of Elena Kagan. It is time that Republicans stood together to oppose the appointment of activist, out of touch judges to the bench.
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