Supreme Court Pick Elena Kagan Exposed In New Book: 'The Manchurian President'

WASHINGTON, May 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Obama's rumored Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan has advocated for an increased presidential role in regulation, which, she conceded, would make such affairs more and more an extension of the president's own policy and political agenda, a new book reveals.

"The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and other Anti-American Extremists" officially was released last week.

The new title from WND senior reporter and WABC Radio host Aaron Klein skyrocketed to No. 1 on the non-fiction list at Amazon.com.

With almost 900 citations, the book bills itself as the most exhaustive investigation ever performed into Obama's political background and radical ties. Klein's co-author is historian and researcher Brenda Elliott .

"The Manchurian President" charges Obama has deep ties to an anti-American extremist nexus that has been instrumental not only in building his political career but in crafting current White House policy.

The book seeks to expose an extremist coalition of communists, socialists and other radicals working both inside and outside the administration to draft and advance current White House policy goals.

"Manchurian" author Klein investigated Kagan's academic writings, in which she argued, "Presidential control of administration, in critical respects, expanded dramatically during the Clinton years, making the regulatory activity of the executive branch agencies more and more an extension of the president's own policy and political agenda."

Kagan, writing in the Harvard Law Review in 2001, argued that an increased presidential role in regulation "both satisfies legal requirements and promotes the values of administrative accountability and effectiveness."

Kagan's views on presidential control of regulation seem to echo those of controversial regulatory "czar" Cass Sunstein, who, Klein's book exposes, went so far as to argue the interpretation of federal law should be made not by judges but by the beliefs and commitments of the U.S. president and those around him.

Klein says Kagan was heavily involved in promoting the health-care policy of the Clinton administration. With the national debate raging on Obama's new health-care law, many are speculating Kagan could be Obama's pick for the country's top court.