miers critics. we don t know much about her views. honestly the republicans have a little bit of a reason to want to know better who this person is, too. reporter: the comments sound eerily similar to what people are saying about kagan. i have something of a political background myself. reporter: in 05 at a harvard alumni dinner for barack obama, she called him her hero and praising his speech to the 2004 democratic convention. you could have heard a pin drop. and in part, that s because of all these, well, rock star qualities that he has, the eloquence, the magnetism, the great looks, the brilliance. i am glad that dean kagan set the proper tone. reporter: at a graduation ceremony in 2007 you will face choices between
$300 million if dean kagan s policy was not reversed. isn t that a fact? senator sessions, we did what dod asked for because we have always tried to be in compliance with the sole loemen amendment, thought we were, and when dod long held that we were and dod came back to us and said, no, notwithstanding the third circuit decision, we maintain our insistence that you are out of compliance, we said, okay. in fact, you were punishing the military. the protest that you had, that you spoke to on campus was at the very time in the next building or one or two buildings nearby. the military were meeting there. some of the military veterans when they met with you the first time skpesed concern about an
statute. we ve always thought that our policy was in compliance with the statute. the appropriate thing for me to do, really the obligation that i owed to my school and its long standing policy, was to go back to our old accommodation policy which allows the military full access, but through the veterans organization. when dod came to us and said that it thought that that was insufficient, that it wanted to essentially ignore the third circuit decision, because it was taking it up to the supreme court when they came back to us, we went through a discussion of a couple of months, and made a decision to do exactly what dod wanted. well, you did what dod wanted when they told the president and the counsel for the university they were going to lose some $300 million if dean kagan s policy was not reversed. isn t that a fact? senator sessions, we did what dod asked for,
struck down the statute. we ve always thought that our policy was incompliance with the statute. the appropriate thing for me to do, really, the obligation that i owed to my school and its long-standing policy was to go back to our old accommodation policy, which allowed the military full access, but through the veterans organization. when dod came to us and said that it thought that was insufficient that it wanted to essentially ignore the third circuit decision because it was taking it up to the supreme court when they came back to us, we went through a discussion of a couple of months and made a decision to do exactly what dod wanted. well, you did what dod wanted when they told the president and the counsel for the university they were going to lose some $300 million if dean kagan s policy was not reversed. is that a fact? we did what dod asked for
to opposing legislation that would have banned that procedure. during her time as dean as as harvard, ms. kagan reversed existing policy and kicked the military out of the recruiting office in violation of federal law. her actions punished the military and demeaned our soldiers as they were courageously fighting for our country in two wars overseas. as someone who feels the burden of sending such young men and women into harm s way and who spent much time drafting and redrafting legislation to insure military recruiters were treated fairly on campus, i can t take this issue lightly. dean kagan also joined with three other law school deans to write a letter in opposition to senator graham s legislation establishing procedures for determining who was an enemy combatant in the war on terror. she compared this legislation, which passed 84-14, to the