Thread: GOP Senator: Kagan Hearings Being Pushed Too Soon

GOP Senator: Kagan Hearings Being Pushed Too Soon
Monday, 24 May 2010 03:23 PM

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says Democrats' push to start Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings on June 28 could cause a "train wreck."

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama says Republicans will ask for a delay unless senators get access to tens of thousands of pages of records from Kagan's tenure in the Clinton administration.

The national archivist told Sessions and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the Judiciary Committee chairman, in a letter last week that his staff would begin releasing the documents by June 4 and try to accommodate the panel's June 28 deadline.

Kagan served as a White House counsel and then domestic policy adviser to Bill Clinton.

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/US-K ... /id/359984

May 28, 2010, 4:33 pm
Sessions Pushes for Release of Kagan Papers
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee suggested on Friday that the White House is foot-dragging on the release of 160,000 pages of documents relating to Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s days in the Clinton White House.

The National Archives has said it is working to release the information, and will begin making some documents available as early as June 4. But the Republican, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, wants assurances that all the documents will be released by June 28, when confirmation hearings are to set begin.

In a letter to White House Counsel Bob Bauer on Friday, Mr. Sessions suggested that Mr. Obama’s failure to issue a formal waiver for release of the documents is slowing the process down. Writing that he was ‘’concerned by certain ambiguities,’’ Mr. Sessions asked the White House to state in writing that Mr. Obama does not intend to assert executive privilege. A spokesman for the president said Mr. Obama has already made his intentions clear.

The letter comes on the heels of Mr. Sessions’ warning earlier this week that without full access to the documents, he will not allow confirmation hearings to go forward. Mr. Sessions does not have a say in the timing, but if Republicans raise enough of a fuss – and if the records are in fact not available by the hearing start date — the public clamor could make it difficult for Democrats to move ahead.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010 ... f=politics

that woman has no buisness even to be considered for that position. sessions isnt having her BS. its not her fault, she was picked. i dont think it will fly.