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Primer on senators judging would-be Justice Kagan

By Alliance Alert

Associated Press: "What's new is the experience level of committee members. Three have chaired confirmation hearings before. There are no rookies; even the junior senators toward the end of the dais participated in the questioning last year of Obama's first nominee for the high court, Sonia Sotomayor. ... Republicans are examining her experience from other angles. She's never been a judge. As an adviser to President Bill Clinton, she showed a political shrewdness that GOP lawmakers say isn't appropriate for an impartial justice. Most of all, they've taken aim at Kagan's brief refusal to give military recruiters access to the law school's career services office, over the 'don't ask don't tell' policy against openly gay soldiers."

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