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| NRA Shoots Down Approval Of Kagan Confirmation |
| 2010-07-01 |
| The National Rifle Association is opposing Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court and warning senators that it will take their votes into account when considering endorsing their re-election. In a letter sent to leading senators Thursday, top NRA officials say Kagan has "repeatedly demonstrated a clear hostility" to gun rights in her career in government and academia. The NRA also opposed Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation last year. Sotomayor was among the four dissenters in the high court's decision last week that limits state and local gun restrictions. Kagan emerged from three days of vetting by the Senate Judiciary Committee much as she had begun, declaring she'd be an independent and impartial judge and denying Republican suggestions that she would be unable to separate her political leanings from her job as a justice. Democrats said President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens was on track to become the fourth woman in Supreme Court history. "Solicitor General Kagan will be confirmed," declared Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the panel chairman. |
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| #2 In a letter sent to leading senators Thursday, top NRA officials say Kagan has "repeatedly demonstrated a clear hostility" to gun rights..... and the military, and conservatives, and the unborn, and But she certainly didn't forget to mention that she was ..... Amish? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-07-01 17:00 |
| #1 declaring she'd be an independent and impartial judge IOW: I'm not going to answer that because you won't like the answer. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-01 15:13 |