WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman moved quickly Wednesday to advance Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan down a so-far smooth road to confirmation, setting hearings for June 28. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the schedule should allow the hearings to be completed before senators leave for a weeklong break in early July. In announcing it, Leahy was seizing the momentum building behind Kagan’s nomination just over a week after President Barack Obama selected her to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. “I would urge everybody to come to the hearing with an open mind, listen to her answers to those questions, and we will make sure that every senator – both sides of the aisle – has ample time to ask the questions they want,” Leahy said. The Judiciary Committee already sifted through much of Kagan’s record and background for its 2009 hearings on her nomination to be solicitor general, and the 50-year-old former Harvard Law School dean was confirmed then on a bipartisan Senate vote. Leahy said that history, plus Kagan’s lack of experience as a judge – something Republicans have criticized – should make getting ready for these hearings “less labor-intensive.” The timetable mirrors the one Leahy’s… Read full this story
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