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The Spectacle That is Jeff Sessions: Kagan Confirmation Hearings

By Jeralyn

The ocnfirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan have begun.

Dan Abrams tweets:

What a weird spectacle. Kagan has to sit there expressionless as Sessions insults her again and again.

Glenn Greenwald tweets:

I hope progressive legal groups will refrain from heaping praise on Kagan unless/until they learn a little about her judicial philosophy.

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What Sessions said (Via Andrew Cohen tweets):

Sen Sessions: Americans want a judge who will be a check on overreaching by government-- not a rubber stamp.

Sen Sessions: suggesting Kagan is elite, intellectual; says Obama wants judges to base their decisions on "empathy."

Sen Sessions: Kagan's career has been consumed with politics and not with law; says she's associated herself with "activists" in the law.

Sen Sessions: demeaned military during her stint at Harvard Law School through her position on military recruitment.

Sen. Sessions: Kagan was "key person" on Clinton Administration's view on late-term abortion ban.

Sen. Sessions: It's not a coronation, it's a confirmation. Says he has "real concerns" about Kagan nomination. She has not been a judge.

Sen Sessions; Kagan's thesis in college seems to mourn the death of Socialism.

Sessions is nothing if not predictable. What a cartoon, and a buffoon.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).