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Originally Posted by dellinger63
Kagan herself argued for a more stringent questioning of Supreme Court nominees in 1995, words she can expect to hear thrown back at her by senators.
"Senators today do not insist that any nominee reveal what kind of justice they would make, by disclosing her views on important legal issues," Kagan wrote in a University of Chicago Law Review article reviewing "The Confirmation Mess," a book by Stephen L. Carter. "Senators have not done so since the hearings on the nomination of Judge Bork. They instead engage in a peculiar ritual dance, in which they propound their own views on constitutional law, but neither hope nor expect the nominee to respond in like manner."
Hopefully she is a woman of her words!!!!
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how does she prove that? by getting elected to the senate and insisting judicial nominee's disclose their views? i'm not sure you understood what you read if you think it placed any blame for the situation on the judicial candidate.