AP reports on emails written by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan recently released by the Clinton Library (browse her emails here). Included in the correspondence is her expression of concern over the politics of proposed religious freedom legislation.
In one e-mail, Kagan called herself one of the Clinton administration's biggest fans of a law to protect religious freedom but warned then-Vice President Al Gore against endorsing it for fear of creating "a gay/lesbian firestorm."
She also was wary of President Clinton's use of Scripture during one address.
Shortly after Clinton gave his second inaugural address, Kagan e-mailed her boss, Bruce Reed, the director of the Domestic Policy Council, to say she thought one of the president's marquee lines quoting the prophet Isaiah was "the most preposterously presumptuous line I have ever seen."
Kagan's confirmation hearings get under way next week.
