Hearings offer tale of two Elena Kagans

WASHINGTON – Elena Kagan ffxiv gil strode into the Senate hearing on her nomination to the Supreme Court with a broad grin and a bounce in her step.
ff14 gil And then she planted herself, stone-faced, before the senators of the Judiciary Committee to hear a Republican rundown of everything that's wrong ffxiv gold with her.
Those GOP digs ff14 gold were interspersed with effusive praise from Democrats for whom she could do no wrong.
To those hearty souls who tuned in final fantasy xiv gil to C-SPAN on Monday it must have sounded like a tale of two Kagans.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the panel, final fantasy xiv gold previewed the GOP lines of attack — reaching all the STO C-Store way back to her college thesis on socialism, which he final fantasy 14 gold said "seems to bemoan socialism's demise." Iowa's Chuck Grassley said she'd been a "political lawyer." Arizona's Jon Kyl complained about her choice of judicial heroes. Utah's Orrin Hatch wondered buy ffxiv gil aloud if she would be controlled by WoW Around Azeroth the Constitution or try to control it.
For every GOP thrust, there was a Democratic buy ff14 gil parry.
Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont called her legal credentials "unassailable." California's Dianne Feinstein called her lack of experience as buy ffxiv gold a judge "refreshing." Sen. Russell Feingold of Wisconsin spoke of her "thoughtfulness and openness." Sen. Charles the buy ff14 gold Schumer said her "brilliant" record was clear and complete, declaring: "The only thing as far as I can tell that we don't have is her kindergarten report card."
It was a low-key cheap ffxiv gil beginning to hearings that are expected to end with approval of Kagan's nomination, barring unforeseen revelations WoW Ruby Sanctum or major missteps on her part.
While senators stuck largely to the expected cheap ff14 gil script, a small band of protesters tried to liven things up in the withering heat outside, demonstrating against both Kagan's nomination cheap ffxiv gold and Republican senators for not fighting her with more gusto.
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry escorted a dancing WoW Ruby Sanctum chicken around to jab at Republicans' apparent unwillingness cheap ff14 gold to filibuster Kagan. With Terry helpfully interpreting the chicken's squawks, the big bird explained that Republicans "don't think they have the votes and they don't want to have egg on their ffxiv power leveling faces."
The chicken turned out to be a multi-tasker. His yellow suit was stuffed into a knapsack, and the chicken quickly transformed himself into a black-hooded final fantasy xiv power leveling grim ffxiv leveling reaper. Randall and the reaper headed over to the Supreme Court to protest Justice John Paul Stevens' last day on the bench.
The heat didn't ff14 powerleveling deter a a few hundred civic-minded Americans from queuing up outside the Capitol for a seat in the hearing room. Audrey buy aion kinah Smith, a homemaker from Calverton, Md., was up at 4:30 a.m. to take the buy ffxiv power leveling bus and subway downtown to see "a woman who's going to take the seat of a man on the Supreme Court."
"buy final fantasy xiv power leveling I'm for women progressing," she explained.
Not far behind her in line was 20-year-old cheap aion account Matthew Simari, a political science student from Wake Forest University doing research in Washington this summer cheap ffxiv power leveling on the media and politics. He was hopeful for world of warcraft cd key a few more fireworks than during last year's hearings on cheap final fantasy xiv power leveling the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
Kagan is "probably the sassiest" of recent cheap aion leveling nominees, he said. "She's very opinionated."
But pressed on whether he really ff14 gil expected Kagan to really let loose, Simari predicted, "To be honest, she'll probably Aion Kinah guide keep quiet" on contentious issues.
"ff14 gold You always kind of feel cheated by these things," he said.
 
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