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Eureka college. illinois. he went to college in illinois. that woman is all the news and commentary now on countdown. i want my straws. i want my straws. good evening from new york, republicans opposing the supreme court nomination of elena kagan are going to lose. but as the confirmation hearings kicked off today, republicans show they might still snatch defeat from the jaws of more defeat. our fifth story this evening. but first, the formalities. elena kagan, solicitor general of the united states who argues government cases before the supreme court in her opening statement today did nothing to change what she herself has called the vapid and hollow nature of confirmation hearings, assuring critics in the vaguest terms of her impartiality. what i ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. ....
And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to california s eureka college. illinois. he went to college in illinois. that woman is all the news and commentary now on countdown. i want my straws. i want my straws. good evening from new york, republicans opposing the supreme court nomination of elena kagan are going to lose. but as the confirmation hearings kicked off today, republicans show they might still snatch defeat from the jaws of more defeat. our fifth story this evening. but first, the formalities. elena kagan, solicitor general of the united states who argues government cases before the supreme court in her opening statement today did nothing to change what she herself has called the vapid and hollow nature of confirmation hearings, assuring critics in the vaguest terms of her impartiality. ....
Kagan on obamacare, health care, offer what. it seems as if she s a liberal justice, just as alito and roberts were conservative judges and can t we predict sitting here today how that ruling is going to come out? yes. she s going to replace justice john paul stevens, a liberal with the liberal, the real dynamic in washington is as you well know, if one of the conservative justices leave and the president notes to tilt the court in one direction and break in 5-4 ruling when kennedy sides with a conservative. but you re quite right about that, on the kagan thing, she said earlier in a memo or paper or something that these hearings were vapid, that we ought to explore the judicial philosophy. boy, that would be something, if they asked her look, what about obamacare, is there a constitutional right to do that or on the mcdonald s case, the gun case, you can t say that case might come before me so i can t rule on it, tell me, elena kagan, do you feel the justices were right in the mcdon ....
But you can be sure that particularly the republicans lon the committee will be looking for a commitment on her part that she will not try to cut back on the gun rights that have been newly established today. you bring up a good point. we don t know her stance on gun rights or other issues because of the lack of sitting the bench. let me ask you about something that dana bash pointped out, back in 1993 with the ruth bader ginsburg nomination, kagan said she wasn t forthcoming, it was vapid. might we anticipate kagan being forthcoming and how much so? you can be sure that that law review article that she criticized the way nominees dodged and weaved around questions, you can be sure that will be thrown in her face with regulator throughout the course of the week. i do anticipate that she will be ....
Feinstein, because in 1995, as you well know, kagan wrote a law review article in which she said this: subsequent hearings have presented to the public a vapid and holly charade in which repetition of platitudes has replaced discussion of viewpoints. now i know there is going to be a lot of joking on the committee. well, she said that when she wasn t a nominee and stuff. why not hold her to accounts and say, and press her to be more forth coming in her views? i believe this is going to come up at the hearing and she is very likely to be pressed for her views. chris: what if she says, well, i doesn t matter. we all read it. it was very precise. she expressed her very strong views that a nominee should be more forth coming, we should be more pressing in our questions and chris: so you re going to hold her to that? i suspect members will hold her to this. chris: senator graham? well, i expect that she will have a reevaluation of that ....