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June 30, 2010
By SHAYNDI RAICE And COREY BOLES
WASHINGTON—The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has still not explained what kind of justice she would be if confirmed.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), opened the third day of Kagan’s confirmation hearings by saying that while the committee has seen the nominee’s “many gifts and graces,” most Americans, and the members of the committee, still do not know whether Ms. Kagan’s judicial philosophy is more like Chief Justice John Roberts or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Senate Republicans grilled Ms. Kagan Tuesday, focusing their questions on her role in dealing with military recruiters at Harvard and her views on recent high court rulings on gun-ownership rights.
The solicitor general sought to reassure senators that her primary responsibility would be to uphold the law, and that she would not inject her personal political opinions into the judicial process.
She reaffirmed that Wednesday, when she told Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) that, “Every judge has to do what he or she thinks the law requires but on the other hand there’s no question that the court is served best and our country is served best when people trust the court as an entirely non-political body.”
One of the main thrusts of Republicans’ argument in critiquing Ms. Kagan’s nomination is that her career has been essentially a political rather than a legal one, and that she won’t be able to set aside her politics when on the high court.
Read more at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703426004575338682461026458.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLETopStories
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