Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing to start Monday

Source: LA Times

Senate Republicans are expected to grill Obama's Supreme Court nominee on issues such as gun control and campaign finance reform. Kagan is expected to be confirmed.

The questions will come hard and fast for Elena Kagan, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, as her confirmation hearing gets underway Monday. But there will be an added wrinkle beyond the standard thrust and parry over constitutional interpretation and the role of judges in society.

For Congress, it's an election year, and the hearing provides Democrats and Republicans a platform to make their respective campaign arguments.

Even as they grill Kagan, Republicans will continue their assault on the Democratic-controlled Congress, sounding the alarm about what they see as the steadily encroaching reach of the federal government. Kagan will probably face questions about the constitutionality of the sweeping healthcare overhaul and perhaps be asked about the financial regulation bill that could be signed into law in just days.



Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kagan-hearings-20100628,0,7049261.story

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I guess the 2010 campaign is in full throttle mode. Get ready for pyrotechnic polemics. Dare I say posturing?