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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1
...I certainly hope those questioning Kagan take her advise and ask tough questions. During her days as a law professor at the University of Chicago, Kagan said the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justices had become "“vapid and hollow charade,” little more than “official lovefests.”
“Senators today do not insist that any nominee reveal what kind of Justice she would make, by disclosing her views on important legal issues,” Kagan wrote in the spring 1995 issue of the University of Chicago Law Review.
“The Senate’s consideration of a nominee, and particularly the Senate’s confirmation hearings, ought to focus on substantive issues. The Senate ought to view the hearings as an opportunity to gain knowledge and promote public understanding of what the nominee believes the court should do and how she would affect its conduct.”...
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Me too.
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Originally Posted by Donna2
...So you think Rush is an intellectual lightweight?...
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Yeah, I do. He says, "We don’t know anything about her. This woman is worse than Harriet Myers. Intellectually, she’s a lightweight.”, then bashes her nomination. That's before he knows anything about her by his own admission. He's not only an intellectual lightweight himself, but a laughable buffoon.
I'm willing to wait for the serious vetting of the nominee and questioning by the Senate, some of whom can be expected to ask really hard questions. Then we'll be able to form an opinion on the legitimacy of her nomination--something Rush has somehow been able to do with no research whatsoever.