Extraconstitutional Kagan: Unnecessary & Improper

Summary


As solicitor general, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan argued for the same misguided outcome -- and the same dubious constitutional reasoning behind that outcome -- that the United States v. Comstock majority announced this month.

Just as she urged, that majority further -- and wrongly -- overstretched the Constitution's "necessary and proper" clause to uphold indefinite "civil commitment" of mentally ill federal sex offenders who've completed their sentences.

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Extraconstitutional Kagan: Unnecessary & Improper

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