statement from dianne feinstein. but a short time ago, the ranking republican on the committee, his name is jeff sessions, republican of alabama, he set the tone. he was polite, relatively soft-spok soft-spoken, but very tough in setting the tone as the republicans prepare to question this nominee in the coming days. let s listen. but there are serious concerns about this nomination. miss kagan has less real legal experience of any nominee in at least 50 years. and it s not just that the nominee has not been a judge. she has barely practiced law, and not with the intensity and duration from which i think real legal understanding occurs. miss kagan has never tried a case before a jury. she argued her first appellate case just nine months ago. while academia certainly has value, there is no substitute, i think, for being in the harness of the law, handling real cases over a period of years. again, that is jeff sessions, the ranking republican of the senate judiciary committee, singsl
from getting on the bench? i think elects have consequences. i think that s the way most republican senators will look at this. we are unlikely to hear her do what she advised nominees do in the 1990s. she ll sounds like a je a judicl conservative. bret: when we come back after this break we ll return to the elena kagan hearings. we are probably an hour away from hearing from the nominee herself. keep it here on the fox news channel. va has gingko for memory and concentration plus support for bone and breast health. a great addition to my routine. [ female announcer ] one a day women s.
marshall. megyn: welcome back to our continuing coverage of the hearings for elena kagan. if confirmed she ll be the 112th justice. she ll be the fourth woman to serve on the high court. she would change the balance of the court because for the first time we ll have three women serving at once. one person watching these confirmation hearings is our chief campaign correspondent carl cameron watching from the sky box above the hearing room. is there any doubt about the subject we have been hearing. whether she is a liberal? elena kagan has been a
ponder, should the american people know what you think before we install you for lifetime tenure on the supreme court? what obligation do we have to make sure they know what your thinking is, whether liberal or conservative. they ought to know elena kagan by the time these herings the only way they will know that you asked me for advice when we finished, my advice would be be absolutely completely honest with this committee. it s not for the committee. as our country is divided today, we are polarized regionally and politically. what we have to have and whoever comes to the court is a confidence in their heart that they will do what s best in the long term for this country based on what that document says. my hope is with your stellar academics and stellar intellect that your patriotism will be just as stellar, that you will set a new precedent for this
intelligence surveillance act, which sets the exclusive means for getting a warrant listening to a wiretap, probable cause, and the president s warrantiless wiretap program, justified under article 2. a detroit federal judge said it was unconstitutional, the sixth circuit with a standing decision, 2-1 with admittedly the dissenting opinion much stronger. application for cert denied, and this is something i discussed with you in our meeting, thank you. and in letters i intend to ask you about, and that was one of them. i was concerned about your decisions as solicitor general on the case involving the holocaust victims, suing an insurance company, and the