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washingtonpost.com - 3/6/2009
Nominee for Solicitor General Revises Her Opinion on Opinions
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Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 6, 2009; Page A13

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Lobster in Pot Re-Evaluates Pro-Boiling Stance
The Corner on National Review Online — ... the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, but not before giving the world this priceless quote : ... Reviewing Stephen Carter's book "The Confirmation Mess" for the University of Chicago Law Review in 1995, Kagan opined that "when the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce." [...] Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said that, despite Kagan's praise for the Senate's institutional role in the nomination process, "her refusal to answer legitimate and relevant questions posed by me and ...

Kagan Advances Without Answering Questions:
The Volokh Conspiracy — ... about her views on various cases and legal questions, despite having written previously that nominees should be more forthcoming than they have been in the past. The Washington Post ...

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