from america s news headquarters, alex is once against a tropical storm and may become a hurricane heading towards mexico s east coast. forecasters say it s not on track to hit the massive oil spill, but tactics will change. new pictures of a massive oil slick less than 0 miles from weez coast is more than 30 miles long and could wash ashore in the next 24-4 hours z senate hearings set to begin monday on the president s nomination of alanea kagan to the supreme court. concerns are being raised about her lack of judicial experience. she s the solicitor general if confirmed would become the fourth woman to serve on the high court, replacing john paul stevens. the longest-serving senator in history is in a washington, d.c. area hospital in serious
instances she was among the disenters where occasionally they crossed over and you know, swhaez still there on the left so. i think we can see that from her. the ninth circuit being the liberal ninth circuit and oft-yorn turned. yes. what do we know about alanea kagan? we don t know that much because she hasn t written that much. she was a highly politicized member of the clinton administration. i expect she ll be on the court. i expect hearings are going to be fairly boring. because that is what supreme court nominees do now. yes. yes. and they don t say anything. let s pursue this point we ve raised here. this goes back to the hearing at that time there, was still a view that nominees in the supreme court should be great legal minds. constant constitutional
for supreme court nominee kagan set to begin on monday on capitol hill, members of the senate judiciary committee have a weekend to pour over hundreds of thousands of pages of documents released on kagan so far, including e mails from her four years in the clinton white house. opinion journal.com editor and collin leafy have been digging through the files and join us now. before we get to alanea kagan what have we learned about the court? the court hasn t change that had much with the change to suitor to sotomayor. and there is a change we ll have the one thing that is significant to me is that there is a departure of davis appointed by general schwartz assuming that kagan is a