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Get up to $800 off select john deere equipment at this month's green tag event. visit johndeere.com/greentageve to find an event near yo >> shepard: i'm shepard smith. this is "the fox report." it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. supreme court nominee elena kagan is expected to start meeting with senators within the next couple of days in advance of her eventual confirmation hearing. if senators do eventually confirm her, the court will have three women justices for the first time. also be the first time that no protestants would sit on the court. instead six justices wh...

And the "times" reports her father, a yale alum, was crushed when she went crimson. after graduation, she started her career with clerkships, including one for somebody she admired. >> she has often referred to supreme court justice thurgood marshal for whom she clerked as her hero. i understand he reciprocated by calling her shorty. [ laughter ] >> shepard: have to wonder whether that nickname had anything to do with her basketball game. the "times" report she participated in pickup games in the highest court of the land. >> she has drawn a claim as a pragmatic problem-solver. >> shepard: dur...

Many people's lives. >> shepard: if the president gets his way kagan will no longer stand before the supreme court justice. instead she will sit beside them as a colleague. even though the senate confirmed kagan for current position, some republican lawmakers are warning of a renewed focus on her career she has never served as a judge. >> i'm not suggesting that anyone has ever had to serve as a judge to serve as a justice even though that's a good expersonal basis for it her experience is pretty thin. practicing law only for a couple of years, for example. >> i have urged the president to loo...