The Height of Arrogance: Obama/Holder Rogue Department of (In)Justice Refuses to Enforce the Law, Refuses to Answer Questions of Senate Committee

(CNSNews.com) - Attorney General Eric Holder has refused to
provide written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in
response to "questions
for the record" submitted to him by Sen. Jeff Sessions
(R.-Ala.) that focus on Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's
involvement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act--AKA
Obamacare--while she was President Barack Obama's solicitor
general.

Question: “Are you aware of any instances
during Justice Kagan’s tenure as Solicitor General of the United
States in which information related to the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act and/or litigation related thereto was relayed
or provided to her?”

Question: “When did your staff begin
‘removing’ Solicitor General Kagan from meetings in this
matter? On what basis did you take this action? In what other
matters was such action taken?”

Question: “Did you ever have a conversation
with Justice Kagan regarding her recusal from matters before the
Supreme Court related to the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act? If so, please describe the circumstances and substance
of those conversations.”

These are three of the eight questions that Sessions submitted
to Holder on Nov. 15, 2011 to be included as part of the official
record of Holder’s testimony in an oversight hearing that the
Senate Judiciary Committee held on Nov. 8, 2011. Sessions is a
senior member of the committee.

Holder did not provide the committee with a formal response to
Session's questions until June 7, 2012—seven months after
Sessions submitted them.

When he finally did officially respond, Holder did not answer
any of the questions.

Instead, in responding to each, he simply referred the
Judiciary Committee to a letter
Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich had sent to Sessions on
Feb. 24. This letter, in turn, responded to a letter
Sessions had sent to Holder on Jan. 31 noting that Holder had not
yet answered the questions that Session had submitted in November.

Weich’s February letter informed Sessions directly that the
Justice Department would decline to answer his questions to Holder
about Kagan’s involvement in Obamacare. [On
what possible grounds? There's certainly no attorney-client or any
other privilege attaching to factual questions regarding Kagan's
involvement in the defense of Obamacare!]

Back in March 2010, on the same day that President Obama signed
his health care law, Florida and Virginia sued the administration
challenging the law in federal court. At that time, Elena Kagan
was Obama’s solicitor general, and her job was to defend his
administration’s position in federal court disputes.

Obama did not nominate Kagan to the Supreme Court until May 10,
2010--seven weeks after he had signed the health care law and
Florida and Virginia had filed their suits against it. Kagan
did not recuse herself from her duties as solicitor general until
after Obama nominated her to the court.