Senator: No Kagan hearings without Clinton files

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/24/10 | Julie Hirschfeld Davis - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee warned Monday that he would seek to slow Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's path to confirmation unless senators get full access to her files as a Clinton administration aide.

"We're heading to what could be a train wreck," Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said. "I don't believe that this committee can go forward with an adequate hearing" without all records from Kagan's tenure as a White House counsel and then domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary Committee chairman, last week set hearings to begin on June 28. Sessions said Republicans would ask for a delay unless senators get access to the tens of thousands of pages of Clinton-era records by then.

Sessions doesn't have a veto over the hearing schedule, but his threat set the stage for a potential partisan showdown over the documents and the pace of Kagan's confirmation process.

[NormsRevenge]

Show me ze papers, Ms. Kagan..

[equalitybeforethelaw]

This should make for fun watching. I wonder how the media can spin opacity as a virture?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just shut up and confirm her!

You don't need any damned facts!

It's racist for you to demand facts!

[Faith]

Thank goodness that someone had the guts to stand up to this rushed attempt to confirm.

[darkangel82]

Get lost, punk @ss.

[Lockbox]

or as Nancy would say, you’ll see what type of judge she is after confirmation............

[sthguard]

IBTZ. Buh-bye.

[latina4dubya]

Jim Robinson is a homosexual for pulling my thread.

having a Ground Hog Day?

[rolling_stone]

http://users.wolfcrews.com/toys/vikings/

[darkangel82]

IBTZ

[WashingtonSource]

Takes one to know one.