Kagan Court Confirmation Hearings to Begin June 28, Leahy Says

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Source: Bloomberg

May 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on June 28, said committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat.

“It is in the best interests of the court, and of course of the country” to confirm Kagan before the next session of the court begins in October, Leahy said. He urged senators to come to the hearings “with an open mind.”

Leahy and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the panel, say they are aiming for a full Senate vote on the nomination before a five-week congressional recess that begins Monday, Aug. 9.

Obama last week named Kagan, 50, the former dean of Harvard Law School, to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. In her current job as solicitor general, Kagan is the government’s chief courtroom lawyer.

Sessions says Kagan can expect


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1. I bet the republicans will ask for a delay around June 14.

Just for the hell of it.