EthnicMajority » Elena Kagan http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Kagan Docs Show Support For #AffirmativeAction http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress/workplace/2010/06/kagan-docs-show-support-for-affirmativeaction http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress/workplace/2010/06/kagan-docs-show-support-for-affirmativeaction#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:32:55 +0000 Clifford Tong http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress/?p=1166 (CBS News) While working as a domestic policy adviser to President Clinton, Elena Kagan emphatically agreed with a proposal to strongly defend affirmative action in the Supreme Court, while at the same time siding with a white teacher who was laid off instead of a black colleague solely because of her race.

“I think this is exactly the right position–as a legal matter, as a policy matter, and as a political matter,” Kagan wrote by hand in the margin of a memo from then-Solicitor General Walter Dellinger about the controversial case, Piscataway Board of Education v. Taxman.

That posture — strategic and careful — is reflected throughout the 46,500 pages of documents contained in the Clinton Library and released on Friday. The documents represent about a third of the Kagan documents stored in the Library and cover her time as a deputy domestic policy adviser to President Clinton from 1997-1999.

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