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GOP may boycott Kagan hearings - Manu Raju - POLITICO.com
Via Hot Air...
Hot Air Republicans to boycott Kagan hearing?; Update: Video added
Yeah I gotta agree. It would be political theatre but maybe that's just what the Kagan hearing needs. The media (mainstream) has dropped the ball on coverage. We need as much information as possible since she has no record at all as a judge. Too much theatre can be a bad thing though. For example, I'm not sure if even Kagan deserves the Bork treatment... even if she does:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWibqh0De50]YouTube - Kagan on Bork[/ame]
Final Countdown to Kagan Hearings Begins … With More Bork The Washington Independent
Kagan Praises Bork. Bork, Won't Return the Favor - Political Punch
Ted Kennedy style slander and lie's make one heck of a model.
Not sure if the Republicans will "walk out" of the hearing or not but I'm positive there will be no "Borking" of Kagan. No one deserves that.
GOP may boycott Kagan hearings - Manu Raju - POLITICO.com
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, on Monday evening warned that Republicans may boycott the start of Elena Kagan's Supreme Court hearings if senators do not get to review scores of documents from the solicitor general's past.
"I don't feel like we're prepared yet," Sessions told POLITICO. "It's becoming more clear that this is not an easy thing to get ready this quick."
Sessions said there appeared to be 1,600 withheld documents, which cover Kagans time as a senior White House aide under President Bill Clinton but were not released because of confidentiality concerns. And he called for the Obama administration to at least provide key senators and staff with a chance to privately review the confidential documents so they could weigh in on the validity of the decision to withhold the documents.
Via Hot Air...
Hot Air Republicans to boycott Kagan hearing?; Update: Video added
If the Republicans walk out, though, it will bring the proceedings to a temporary halt. The Judiciary Committee cannot proceed without at least one Republican in attendance; without that, no quorum exists. With a recess coming up in a few weeks, any stoppage might put off final confirmation until close to the time when the Supreme Court returns. More likely, however, would be a symbolic hiatus of a day or two in order to force the media to cover the lack of transparency in this unusual nomination of a political operative with no judicial experience whatsoever.
Yeah I gotta agree. It would be political theatre but maybe that's just what the Kagan hearing needs. The media (mainstream) has dropped the ball on coverage. We need as much information as possible since she has no record at all as a judge. Too much theatre can be a bad thing though. For example, I'm not sure if even Kagan deserves the Bork treatment... even if she does:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWibqh0De50]YouTube - Kagan on Bork[/ame]
Final Countdown to Kagan Hearings Begins … With More Bork The Washington Independent
Though Kagan herself was tight-lipped in her confirmation hearing for Solicitor General last year, ABC News Ariane de Vogue reports that Kagan had given even more effusive praise for the way the Bork hearings were conducted in a law review article published two years before the speech.
Kagan Praises Bork. Bork, Won't Return the Favor - Political Punch
In the article, Kagan wrote that Borks hearing should be a model for all others, because even though it ended in the candidate's rejection, the hearings presented an opportunity for the Senate and the nominee to engage on controversial issues and educate the public.
"Not since Bork," she said, "has any nominee candidly discussed, or felt a need to discuss, his or her views and philosophy."
"The debate focused not on trivialities," she wrote, but on essentials: "the understanding of the Constitution that the nominee would carry with him to the Court."
Ted Kennedy style slander and lie's make one heck of a model.
Not sure if the Republicans will "walk out" of the hearing or not but I'm positive there will be no "Borking" of Kagan. No one deserves that.