Posted on 06/22/2010 4:53:48 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON – For several grueling hours each day, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan sits at a witness table, facing a phalanx of questioners grilling her about constitutional law, her views of legal issues and what qualifies her to be a justice. They are not polite.
It's all a rehearsal for Kagan's big performance next week during her confirmation hearings at the Senate Judiciary Committee. The "murder boards" are elaborately planned sessions where Kagan hashes out answers to every conceivable question and practices staying calm and poised during hours of pressure and hot television lights.
About 20 members of President Barack Obama's team play senators, peppering Kagan with tough questions designed to trip her up or elicit an unscripted response. Kagan practices being herself. She works to avoid handing her opposition the 10-second sound bite that could derail her so-far smooth trajectory toward confirmation.
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the list, ping
‘POISE’? *chuckle*
Republicans: attack, attack, attack.
Bork the Bleeping Commie!
Leftists are nothing but smoke and mirrors. Why didn’t the majority of the voters see through them last November???
Oops. November 2008.
The hearings will probably be a mockery in an of themselves.
Libtard Commie Kagan (A) - Is that a trick question?
Alito and Roberts, answering every loaded question directly while quoting Case Law without the use of any notes. The good old days...
If only the Pubbies on the Committee would act like the Democrats who Borked Bork. I would take off work to watch that all day long.
Why don’t we just have her mud wrestle an alligator? If Kagan wins, she gets to go on the Supreme Court. If the gator wins, we all win.
So, on our tax dollars and on our time, this not-so-ready-for prime time person gets to “practice’? This is such a load of BS!! She needs to get a life!
She has to practice being what she isn’t, a defender of the Constitution, in order to get confirmed so she can be what she is - a marxist revolutionary.
Neither of which would come naturally.
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