A LAWYER WHO WILL INTENTIONALLY MISLEAD A FEDERAL COURT JUDGE... - Granite Grok

A LAWYER WHO WILL INTENTIONALLY MISLEAD A FEDERAL COURT JUDGE…

…is not a good person to elevate to the U.S. Supreme Court. From NRO via Powerline and RedState, it appears that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan personally had false language inserted in a document that was calculated and utilized to deceive a federal court judge during litigation. If it is true, it is a clear violation of the ethical canons of the legal profession. You don’t lie to judges in order to obtain an advantage in litigation. Every lawyer has a sacred duty of candor and truth toward the courts, and takes an oath not to lie to them. (For instance, here’s part of the oath of admission to the Florida Bar: "I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to me such means only as are consistent with truth and honor, and will never seek to mislead the judge or jury by any artifice or false statement of fact or law.")

Why would Kagan do such a thing?

To protect the sacred faux Constitutional right of women and doctors to legally kill viable, almost-born children shortly before taking their first breath, that’s why.

Here is the NRO article by Shannen Coffin: "Kagan’s Abortion Distortion: How the Supreme Court nominee manipulated the statement of a medical organization to protect partial-birth abortion."

And then, summing up the facts is John Hinderacker at Powerline:

Unless there is some other interpretation of these documents that does not occur to me, it appears that Elena Kagan participated in a gigantic scientific deception. On behalf of the Clinton White House, she deliberately subverted what was supposed to be an objective scientific process. The ACOG report was certainly seen in that light by the federal courts. Federal Judge Richard Kopf was deeply impressed by the scientific integrity of the report; he wrote:

“Before and during the task force meeting,” he concluded, “neither ACOG nor the task force members conversed with other individuals or organizations, including congressmen and doctors who provided congressional testimony, concerning the topics addressed” in the ACOG statement.

This statement was obviously false. The federal courts were victimized by a gross deception and a perversion of both the scientific process and the judicial process, carried out, the evidence appears to show, by Elena Kagan.

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