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John Cornyn: Elena Kagan Documents Key to Confirmation Process
By Mari Fagel - Politics DailySen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is insisting the Senate review documents from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's time in the Clinton administration before holding a confirmation hearing. Kagan served as both a lawyer and policy adviser to President Bill Clinton. Cornyn said the 160,000 pages the White House has requested from the Clinton Presidential Library are essential to determining Kagan's judicial views and opinions. "I think it would be a mistake to hold the hearing until we have a chance to see those documents and any other documents that might exist," said Cornyn. "Because she has no ...
Supreme Court Watch: Nine Questions the President Should Ask Nominees
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWith an eye toward a quick Supreme Court nomination, President Barack Obama spent part of his busy week talking with Senate Judiciary Committee members and even some of the candidates in the hunt to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. He hasn't yet had any formal interviews, an administration official told the Associated Press, but clearly the end-game is underway. The president met face-to-face last year with four candidates before selecting Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter. Our history books would be richer indeed if these conversations -- part job interview, part ...
Two More Nos for Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyTwo more senators, John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), said Friday they'll vote to oppose Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. Both Cornyn and Hatch sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where each quizzed the judge last week on her views of abortion and the Second Amendment, and on her past statement that she would hope a "wise Latina" would make better judgments than a white man.In his speech on the Senate floor, Cornyn said Friday that although Sotomayor had performed well during the nomination hearings, she had expressed "very radical ideas" about the role of a ...
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