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Conceiving compelling criminal justice questions for the Kagan confirmation hearings

By Douglas A. Berman

It is always possible that some folks involved in the Kagan confirmation hearing might sometime check out this blog, and it is certainly likely these folks have not given too much time or attention to criminal justice issues because Elena Kagan's record is so spartan on crime and punishment matters.  For these reasons (and others), I hope readers might use this post as a forum for proposing compelling criminal justice questions for the Senators on the Judiciary Committee to ask during the Kagan confirmation hearings.  Here are a half-dozen of the hundreds of criminal justice questions I would love to see asked of Kagan in light of some of the Supreme Court's recent criminal justice jurisprudence and her recent work as Solicitor General: 1...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 27, 2010 (boomark / email).