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Senator: No Kagan hearings without Clinton files
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/24/10 | Julie Hirschfeld Davis - ap

Posted on 05/24/2010 1:11:08 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: 111th; clinton; clintonlegacy; cultureofcorruption; hearings; impeachedpresident; jeff; kagan; liberalfascism; liberalkoolaid; papers; senator; sessions; transparency
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To: eCSMaster

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81 posted on 05/24/2010 2:14:10 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: John K Smith III

You malignant little twerp. You’ve been zotted and flagged.

I don’t expect to see you around under any screen name.


82 posted on 05/24/2010 2:14:28 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (I won't be happy until Jet-A is less than $2.00 a gallon)
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To: RWGinger

In the end, I fear, both will vote for her. Going along to get along. I pray I am wrong, though,and both grow spines to block this leftist twit.


83 posted on 05/24/2010 2:21:35 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: NormsRevenge
TRANSPARENCY
84 posted on 05/24/2010 2:26:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: ReneeLynn
“Does this mean it’s time for someone to stuff those files down their pants and just walk off?”

For that to work, it would have to be someone who would not draw undue suspicion walking around with a large bulge in his pants. What Clinton possibly could pull this off?

85 posted on 05/24/2010 2:30:23 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: DrC

The academics will try to spin it that Obama wasn’t given a chance, just like Marxism has never succeeded because “true Marxism” has never “really” been tried.

He’s a red diaper doper baby and his first goal is to upset the “history and traditions” of this nation by steering us as far off constitutional course as he can as quickly as possible. He’s on record feeling stunted by the Constitution keeping him from doing all he’d like to do. He knows that he CAN create new “constitutional” law by Supreme Court Gods decree and that has been a lifegoal of his to changing this nation to a socialist utopia.


86 posted on 05/24/2010 2:32:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: NormsRevenge

guess it will take weeks to locate Sandy Berger and take an inventory of his pants...


87 posted on 05/24/2010 2:41:32 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: NormsRevenge

Sessions is my fav Senator.


88 posted on 05/24/2010 2:42:24 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: NormsRevenge
Best zot in a long time and I missed it in the dang shower!


89 posted on 05/24/2010 2:43:48 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
...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.

90 posted on 05/24/2010 2:45:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: NormsRevenge

Finally!

I’ve been waiting for Sessions!


91 posted on 05/24/2010 2:48:17 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: bigredkitty1

since she is replacing a leftist it won’t change anything but I hope the GOP Senators grill her and make her sweat.

She seems particlarly nasty but she doesn’t change the court make up.


92 posted on 05/24/2010 2:50:24 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: NormsRevenge

Hmmm... There were a lot of people that assumed before Obama made his choice that he would nominated someone who would not make it through the process (get Borked). This way his second more radical choice would stand a better chance.

Now, I wonder if this nominee might be a double edge sword. First to provide cover for his real choice and to damage Hillary Clinton. I suspect some of the papers from the library are going to leave a dent and damage any chance of her running in 2012.


93 posted on 05/24/2010 2:53:17 PM PDT by BushCountry ( I spoken many wise words in jest, but no comparsion to the number of stupid words spoken in earnest)
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To: rfreedom4u

Interesting idea here. We have an opportunity to find out more about the underworkings of the Clintons and the plans of Emperor Zero.

I wonder if the records have anything to do with a birth certificate??


94 posted on 05/24/2010 3:07:09 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Racial Profiling: Anti-Caucasian Racism hidden under a politically correct term)
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To: NormsRevenge

God bless Sen. Sessions for having the courage to speak up. I wish other Republicans would do the same.


95 posted on 05/24/2010 3:10:01 PM PDT by SmartInsight (Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ G. J. Nathan)
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To: NormsRevenge

Good thinkin’, Senator Sessions! Hope that works; it would
be the first time anyone saw some of those files! Could be
verrrrrrry interesting reading!


96 posted on 05/24/2010 3:22:57 PM PDT by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!....I can see November from my house!)
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To: NormsRevenge

See tagline.


97 posted on 05/24/2010 3:29:56 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bummer calls opponents "Teabaggers". So we can call Kagan "Carpet Muncher." Right?)
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To: rfreedom4u

Did I miss something? Aren’t these files from Elena Kagan’s previous work - part of which was for Bill Clinton’s administration - which is why they are at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library? What does this have to do with Hillary’s Rose Law Firm files that were here and there in the WH and were supoenaed?


98 posted on 05/24/2010 3:42:32 PM PDT by txrangerette ("Question with boldness. Hold to the truth. Speak without fear". - Glenn Beck -)
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To: onyx

Finally!

I’ve been waiting for Sessions!

A Good Man.. Fighting a force few dare challenge openly.

DeMint, Sessions and a few others may seem just that, a few.. but they speak for millions and for the preservation of the Republic.. or its latest ‘phase’ anyway..


99 posted on 05/24/2010 3:43:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: RWGinger

True. I just wish GWB could have put just one more solid conservative on the bench. He couldn’t, though. Ginsberg just wouldn’t do the honorable thing and drop dead. (Yes, I know that is a dreadful thing to say. As she is an America hating leftist, she deserves it.)


100 posted on 05/24/2010 3:46:46 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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