WASHINGTON – It's a unpretentious concern of math: Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court has compound the regulation's venture to oblige the tobacco dynamism to cough up more $300 billion.
If confirmed not later than the Senate as a detention, Kagan would bear to outlast away from strong court review of the control's decade-old racketeering lawsuit against cigarette makers. That's because she already has infatuated sides as counselor-at-law blended, signing the Obama delivery's Uttermost Court short in the suit — an mechanical disqualifier.
Kagan is expected to begin aside from 11 of the 24 cases the court has so overstep agreed to hear inception in October.
Without her, the ministry and anti-tobacco advocates could find it difficult, if not impossible, to find a fifth guarantee to admit the government to look for $280 billion of one-time tobacco profits and $14 billion seeking a citizen race to curb smoking.
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