You really expect that from the spineless weasel in the Senate? 
Posted on 05/13/2010 2:38:21 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kagan: Confirmation Hearings are a "Charade" Posted by Jan Crawford Leave Comment
In her private meetings with Senators, Elena Kagan is making a point that's pretty hard to dispute. But in doing so, she's turning up the pressure -- on herself.
Kagan, the no-nonsense solicitor general, is criticizing past Supreme Court hearings as lacking in substance -- and the performance of at least one justice now on the Court, according to senators who talked to her.
"She identified a specific justice who she thought was not appropriate in responses," said Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter after he met with Kagan. "I'm not going to tell you who it was, but I'm going to take a look at that record in preparation for the questioning."
Hers is a widely shared view: Senators pontificate; nominees stonewall.
"The last several hearings have been, as she has indicated, pretty superficial," said Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl, who met with Kagan yesterday.
Kagan tackled the problem in a 1995 University of Chicago Law Review article. She said the hearings had become a "farce" and a "vapid and hollow charade." Not since Robert Bork, she wrote, had any nominee candidly discussed his or her views.
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Good, she’s asking for the kind of quality hearing Bork got.
“Kagan tackled the problem in a 1995 University of Chicago Law Review article. She said the hearings had become a “farce” and a “vapid and hollow charade.” “
That means she’ll fit right in.
The list, ping
He’s right. Or do I mean She’s right.
Either way, with RINO’s like Scott Brown signing on....
He will sail through the nomination process.
She must have been referring to been Ginsburg.
It is interesting that we have a nominee with zero substance critiquing the sc nomination process as not having substance. Who is she to criticize? What has she ever done? She has never even been a judge.
My guess is it's either Breyer,Ginsburg or The Wise Latina.
“Not since Robert Bork, she wrote, had any nominee candidly discussed his or her views.”
And looked what happened to him. No wonder nominees don’t want to answer questions specifically any longer.
And we see how well that worked out for Judge Bork.
The despicable Dems demagogued him into some sort of cartoonish evil villain from a Quentin Tarantino movie.
When it comes to approving judges, the disparity between the rules by which the two parties operate is nonsensical.
fry the witch. she is as anti gun as they come
Its safe to assume the worst and save the fight for next one. That’s the one that will change America for a very long time.
two ultra liberals in less than two years.
So, she liked the Bork hearings, huh?
We can accomodate, if that is what she REALLY wants.
Yeah. To me, the capper in the Bork hearing, the absolute nadir, was when Sen. Howell Heflin (D-Alabama) told Judge Bork, "I don't like your beard."
Sen. Heflin was also famous for once feeling a sniffle coming on and pulling a pair of womens panties out of his pocket to wipe his nose. He then issued a press release saying it was his wife's white panties that he picked up by mistake, so from henceforth he would buy only colored handkerchiefs.
Oh, I look forward to another Bork type hearing. Too bad the old fart Heflin is no longer with us. But we have comedian Al Frankin waiting in the wings.
You really expect that from the spineless weasel in the Senate?
Ginsburg was bad enough - this would be cruel and unusual punishment.
(SMACK)...Sorry, reality just arrived....
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