Senator: No Kagan hearings without Clinton files

Elena Kagan, Nominee, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
50 Years Old
J.D. Harvard Law School
Jewish


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.

Kagan, 50, is President Barack Obama's choice to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Obama named her two weeks ago and asked that the Senate confirm her in time for her to join the court at the start of its new session this fall. Leahy's hearing date would meet that timetable, paving the way for a vote in the full Senate before its monthlong August vacation.

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When I watch him in action, he's mean and he likes it that way.

slow this down so much she will never get confirmation. I suppose Obama should go to the republicans and tell them OK guys you are the ones in charge pick your choice so we can confirm them.

It seems she said some scary things about abortion rights.

the tens of thousands (more?) of files that the Republicans subpoenaed when they controlled Congress weren't enough for them? They still want more????

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