was working at the white house and it s in regards to partial birth abortion. reporter: this was under president clinton there was an issue of legislation on a partial birth abortion ban. she with us a domestic policy adviser at the time. she coauthored a memo giving advice to the president. tom dash shell had authored up a memo that would allow a partial birth abortion when there was a threat to the mother. this is what she said. it will weaken your position and increase the chance that congress will override your veto. sounded lot more like a political khral khraeugs than giving us any real meat on where she stands on abortion. jane: shannon, thanks. jon: right now the owe obama administration seems no different from previous administrations, democrat or republican when it comes to choosing what information to
gop senators say they want to see kagan s memos from her time as domestic policy adviser to clinton. since her public record is, as they put it, so thin. let s turn to msnbc political analyst, huffington post contributor lawrence o donnell, who supports the kagan nomination. lawrence, good evening. good to be here. let s bring in thomas jefferson school law professor marjorie cohen, who opposes the nomination. good evening to you. good evening, keith. the kind of executive power expanded under the bush administration, some continued under the obama administration. in your assessment, how does solicitor general kagan fare on that topic? well, there were policies during the bush administration that led to torture and abuse of prisoners, indefinite detention of men and boys in small cages at guantanamo without charges, spying on americans without warrants, the use of military commissions, using state secrets privilege to keep people who had been tortured out of court.
self-description by the senator. gop senators say they want to see kagan s memos from her time as domestic policy adviser to clinton. let s turn to msnbc political analyst lawrence o donnell who supports the kagan nomination. lawrence, good evening. good to be here. let s bring in thomas jefferson school law professor marjorie cohen who opposed the nomination. good evening to you. good evening, keith. the kind of executive power expanded under the bush administration, some continued under the obama administration. how does solicitor general kagan fare on that topic? well, there were policies during the bush administration that led to torture and abuse of prisoners, indefinite detention of boys in cages, spying on americans without warrants, the use of military commissions, using state secrets privilege to
first part sounded like a self-description by the senator. gop senators say they want to see kagan s memos from her time as domestic policy adviser to clinton. let s turn to msnbc political analyst lawrence o donnell who supports the kagan nomination. lawrence, good evening. good to be here. let s bring in thomas jefferson school law professor marjorie cohen who opposed the nomination. good evening to you. good evening, keith. the kind of executive power expanded under the bush administration, some continued under the obama administration. how does solicitor general kagan fare on that topic? well, there were policies during the bush administration that led to torture and abuse of prisoners, indefinite detention of boys in cages, spying on americans without warrants, the use of military commissions, using state secrets privilege to
to offend anyone. he apologized. the school said ignorance is no excuse. black face is an expression of racism. supreme court nominee elena kagan drawing criticism from both sides of the aisle as you ve heard. on the right for her lack of experience. if a nominee does not have judicial experience, they should have substantial litigation experience. miss kagan has neither. that was senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. also right now on the left, she may not be liberal enough. that s the complaint there. some progressives there say she s too much of a blank slate to know how she stands on any issue. for any rational citizen to want to assess appropriateness of putting her on the court to replace justice stevens, there s really absolutely nothing a person can look to to know the kind of judge she can be. a lawyer and former domestic