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By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyYou are Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and this is your job interview. You sit alone at a small table in the middle of a large and crowded room. A few steps up, facing you and around the sides as well, are 19 feisty human resources directors. Increasingly dysfunctional among themselves, and positively dreary in front of an outsider from another branch of government, they appear less interested in your answers than in the camera-ready phrasings of their own questions. Behind you, and above in the booths, hundreds of journalists are taking down your every word. C-SPAN and the cable news ...
NRA Discourages Board Members From Testifying Against Kagan
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn the eve of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan -- and for the second time in two weeks -- the National Rifle Association (NRA) is under fire from conservatives. According to RedState's Erick Erickson, a prominent conservative blogger, "internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members show that the National Rifle Association's management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA's board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment issues" during the Kagan hearings. It turns out that during the confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court ...
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