Kagan ideals and views still hazy-Poltical News

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The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has still not explained what kind of justice she would be if confirmed.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), opened the third day of Kagan’s confirmation hearings by saying that while the committee has seen the nominee’s “many gifts and graces,” most Americans, and the members of the committee, still do not know whether Ms. Kagan’s judicial philosophy is more like Chief Justice John Roberts or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

One of the main thrusts of Republicans’ argument in critiquing Ms. Kagan’s nomination is that her career has been essentially a political rather than a legal one, and that she won’t be able to set aside her politics when on the high court.