Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) “announced that she will vote against Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court when the Senate takes up the nomination next week,” according to a press release.
“Since Ms. Kagan has primarily worked in politics and academia, rather than in the actual practice or adjudication of law, there is little evidence of her methodology or her viewpoints on major Constitutional issues. Using this limited information, we must strongly consider how her personal political views guide her actions and decisions while she was in positions of authority.
“One incident that weighed heavily in my decision to oppose Ms. Kagan’s confirmation was her ban of military recruiters from campus when she was Dean of the Harvard Law School. Her decision denied our military equal access to some of the brightest new legal minds in the nation. Ms. Kagan’s snub demeaned our military and it defied federal law.
“Her decision on military recruiters while at Harvard gives evidence of her personal views instructing her professional decisions in order to promote a social agenda. I simply cannot reconcile Ms. Kagan’s sparse record and my concerns about whether she will be an impartial arbiter of the law and so I will oppose her appointment.”
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