July 20, 2010 10:42 AM

Sessions: Kagan Has "Serious Judgmental Flaws and Errors"

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Lauren Seifert
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While it was no surprise, Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee (R-Ala.) spoke with CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford this morning and voiced his reasons on why he will vote against Elena Kagan at Tuesday's committee vote for the Supreme Court nominee.

Sessions cited Kagan's lack of experience on the bench, "A number of her decisions in her very limited legal career indicate that kind of approach to law and some serious judgmental flaws and errors that I think are quite significant and need to be understood by the American people."

Sessions also told Crawford that she may be the choice of the White House, but that doesn't mean she's the right choice. "I believe she is the kind of judge Obama wants but the kind of judge that we do not need on the Supreme Court," he said.

Watch the interview above.

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by Shibbol July 20, 2010 12:32 PM EDT
Translation: I would like a conservative Republican in her place.
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by stickyshooZ July 20, 2010 11:39 AM EDT
People should not support her. She is a Goldman Sachs minion, connected to Larry Summers (who is largely responsible for the derivatives problem we are now facing, along with Robert Rubin and Alan Greenspan), she has written white papers about how she believes the government can "disappear" free speech if someone finds it offensive, she's anti 2nd amendment, and she has no real judicial experience. I can only imagine people supporting her because they don't know anything about her and the mainstream media refuses to report on it...
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by derv2 July 20, 2010 11:38 AM EDT
Kagan, really? There are easily a dozen candidates that are better than her, that are still liberal. Read some of this lady's writings and opinions-she is a nutcase academic who had never lived in reality outside of the political environment. Just what we need, another entitlement aristocrat Ivy-league fat cat.
Let's see how we can blame this on Bush and insert a snide comment about how conservatives ruined the world.
I voted for Obama, but the man I voted for is vastly different from the barely functional retard I see pandering to voters.
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by bradkt1 July 20, 2010 11:20 AM EDT
And we are supposed to believe that he ever gave her a fair hearing? Sure we are.

The real translation for this Washington doublespeak is "She's not a conservative so I am not going to vote to confirm her." That was always his intention from day one.
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