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Elena Kagan Hearings: Military Vets Paint Different Pictures of Nominee

Military veterans testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday evening gave members of the panel two diametrically opposed portraits of Elena Kagan, the former dean of the Harvard Law School and nominee for next justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Depending on the witness, Kagan was either a radical academic with a deep-seated hostility toward the military or a leader and consensus builder who went out of her way as the dean at Harvard to make veterans feel not only important, but "revered." The contrasting pictures came from the four veterans invited to testify at Kagan's ...

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