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Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is caught dozing off during Elena Kagan's open statement at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

The Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan starts on Monday, June 28. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has refused Republican requests to delay the hearing. The Republicans have a very good and justified reason for that request — the huge number of documents that they have just been inundated with, a volume of material so large that it will be virtually impossible for the Senators and their staff to give it any meaningful review prior to the hearing. But then, that may be the very reason that Sen. Leahy has refused to reschedule...

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is telling senators she'll do her best to consider cases impartially and with judicial humility, as she begins Judiciary Committee hearings facing Republicans charges that she'd let her political views color her decisions as a justice. "I will do my best to consider every case impartially, modestly, with commitment to principle, and in accordance with law," Kagan plans to tell senators as she heads into a marathon week of high-pressure vetting before the Judiciary panel, pressing to portray herself as a mainstream addition to the court.

Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings for President Obama’s nominee, Elena Kagan, begin today at the Capitol (video). Kagan has been working with White House lawyers for weeks to prepare for the hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kagan’s refusal to allow military recruiters at the Harvard Law School when she was Dean there is likely to be a central flash point during the hearings. Kagan has a radical ideology and would, no doubt, push a far-Left agenda from the bench. Let’s hope Republicans don’t make her confirmation easy, but rather use these hearings to show just how radical she has been,...

House Republicans want the Senate to grill Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on her involvement in a federal challenge to an Arizona immigration law, adding a new layer of questioning into the mix with Kagan's hearing set to begin Monday.  The immigration issue would be one of several concerns that have developed among Kagan's critics in recent weeks. Though her nomination has been overshadowed in Washington by other issues ranging from the BP oil spill to the Afghanistan command shake-up, Republicans are looking to throw up hurdles next week to Kagan's confirmation. She may not be the most controversial nominee,...

Former Harvard Law Dean to be Grilled on Military Recruitment, Abortion Memo Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the woman President Obama has chosen to be the next Supreme Court justice, long ago laid down a marker for Senate confirmation hearings. They have become a "hollow charade," a "ritual dance," she wrote 15 years ago, complaining that such hearings no longer offered serious discussion of the Constitution. The public should learn something significant about a Supreme Court nominee, Kagan asserted, noting that the person is headed for a lifetime "seat of power and a public trust." As her own hearings begin Monday,...

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's press for considering international law as "the context" for interpreting U.S. law has incited worries her appointment could pave the way for world treaties that threaten both parental rights and homeschooling in the United States.

Shortly after becoming dean of the Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan kicked the military out of the school's recruitment office while our troops were putting their lives on the line in two wars overseas. Now that President Obama has nominated Kagan to the Supreme Court, her actions at Harvard must be closely examined. As ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have pledged that Kagan will receive a fair and thorough hearing. Because Kagan's legal record is thin — she has never been a judge and practiced law for only two years — her time at Harvard is especially...

Devco, SC—Gelastic Industries, the developer of games such as Scramble For Congressional Dollars®, Congressional Land® and Stack The National Debt®, has developed a new and exciting game designed to keep your family entertained for hours. The new game is called Elena Kagan: Man or Woman? That’s right, Elena Kagan fans! You get a chance to figure out whether Elena Kagan is actually a man or a woman. In order to become champion, you must guess Elena Kagan’s sex and then figure out his/her sexual orientation. It’s a daunting task for any fan, but it’s a game that all who play...

I know: since when did we expect liberals to be consistent? Still, it strikes me as rather odd that President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan would try to bar military recruiters and ROTC from the Harvard campus over the the fact that homosexual conduct is considered incompatible with military service, yet would welcome a center for Islamic studies (and $20 million) from Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz. The astute observer of history and current events will note that Islam and Sharia Law is not only extremely harsh toward homosexuality (as it is harsh toward pretty...

Monday’s Supreme Court case on supporting terrorism saw retiring Justice Stevens side with the conservatives, while Justice Sotomayor went the opposite way. This suggests that Elena Kagan could move the Court to the left on national security. On June 21, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (HLP). In this case, the Supreme Court considered whether a federal law that forbids providing “material support” to terrorist organizations is unconstitutional. By a 6-3 vote, the Court held that it is not. The federal law referred to as the “material support statute” makes it a crime...

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) tells Fox News that GOP members of the Senate Judiciary committee may boycott the confirmation hearings of Solicitor General Elena Kagan. "In my view, what I believe is that if there's an absolute -- if there's a circumstance where legitimately producible documents are being withheld, I don't take anything off the table," Sen. Sessions said in response if he and other GOP Senators will boycott the hearings.

Forty-two percent (42%) of U.S. voters now believe Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan should not be confirmed following the Senate hearings scheduled to begin next week. That's up nine points from the week President Obama announced her nomination and the highest level of opposition to date in Rasmussen Reports tracking of the Kagan nomination. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 35% think Kagan should be confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the Supreme Court. Another 23% are undecided at this point. By comparison, just before Senate hearings began last summer for Supreme Court nominee...

Massive shocking research coming up. Elena Kagan would be the most dangerous radical to ever wear that robe. She would surpass Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If you are familiar with most of the forthcoming research already, God bless you.

ON a crowded train somewhere in Pennsylvania in the aftermath of World War II, Robert Kagan gave up his seat to Gloria Gittelman, a fellow student from Pennsylvania State University, on a trip home during a school holiday. He was bound for Brooklyn, she for South Philadelphia. That chance meeting led to a courtship and then marriage in 1950, after Mr. Kagan had begun studying at Yale Law School. The couple settled in Manhattan and had three children: Marc, Elena and Irving. Elena grew up to become dean of Harvard Law School and President Obama’s solicitor general, and if the...

Nominee has a past that is opposed to individual self-defense President Obama poses a real and present danger to the Second Amendment, and he's working to pack the Supreme Court with justices who will undermine Americans' gun rights. Mr. Obama didn't fess up to this radical agenda when running for the highest office in the land. "I have said consistently that I believe that the Second Amendment is an individual right, and that was the essential decision that the Supreme Court came down on," Mr. Obama told Fox News in June 2008. Despite the campaign rhetoric, Mr. Obama is appointing...

New Documents Show Elena Kagan's Pro-Abortion Position Washington, DC -- New documents obtained by CBS News from Elena Kagan's time as a law clerk for pro-abortion Justice Thurgood Marshall reveal more about her position in favor of abortion. They buttress the previous documents and writings pro-life groups have profiled to show Kagan is well outside the judicial mainstream. http://LifeNews.com/nat6394.html

As the documents on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan are slowly released to the public, the paper trail shows that the candidate's views are even worse than conservatives feared. Kagan is 'extreme Leftwing.' The mainstream media, liberals on Capitol Hill, and Bill Clinton, whose library houses some of Kagan's documents, all lied when they claimed her paper trail was 'thin.' The truth is there is substantial information on the extremist nominee to the Court, and Bill Clinton has even threatened to withhold some of the documents. So did the White House. Here is what has been revealed most recently: Fact...

Shortly after becoming Dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan kicked the military out of the school’s recruitment office while our troops were putting their lives on the line in two wars overseas. Now that President Obama has nominated Ms. Kagan to the Supreme Court, her actions at Harvard must be closely examined. As ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have pledged that Ms. Kagan will receive a fair and thorough hearing. Because Ms. Kagan’s legal record is thin—she has never been a judge and practiced law for only two years—her time at Harvard is especially significant. The...