Just Answer the Question. Greenhouse

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AMONG its other virtues, the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court is an opportunity to rescue the confirmation process from the “vapid and hollow charade” that it has become.

The words in quotation marks are those of Ms. Kagan herself, from an article she wrote for the law review of the University of Chicago when she was an assistant law professor there in 1995. The article was a clarion call for substantive questions from senators and similarly substantive answers from Supreme Court nominees. The court and its justices, Professor Kagan asserted, are simply too important for anything less to be acceptable.

The implications of her analysis are little short of revolutionary.

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