Kagan document dump yields forgotten professional associations, record of ... Chicago Press Release Services (press release)
Nomination , as solicitor general, in which she made the same strange retraction.Another entry in the questionnaire documents just how close she is to former N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who recently spoke to the press to attest to her heterosexuality during their college days. Kagan recused herself as solicitor general from a federal case involving the New York Times’ efforts to unseal the affidavit for a wiretap and search warrant in the criminal investigation into Spitzer’s prostitution habit, citing their “personal friendship”:
“In the matter of the application of the New York Times Company to unseal wiretap and search warrant,” United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, docket number M-50: I recused because of my personal friendship with an interested party, Eliot Spitzer.
The questionnaire also contains information on a white-collar-crime case Kagan worked on as a private attorney in the early 1990s that, viewed under the white-hot lights of the confirmation process, might not fit in with the current mood of the public: She worked to protect the head of Western Savings & Loan from civil and criminal litigation after the firm failed.
