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Itself to on-the-job training. of course, one does not need to have prior experience as a judge before being appointed to the country's highest court. but it strikes me that if a nominee does not have judicial experience, they should have substantial litigation experience. ms. kagan has neither. >> i told the president, i said, you realize if you had nominated moses, the law giver, somebody had raised, but he doesn't have a birth certificate. where is his birth certificate? come on. we're talking about a supreme court justice, let's look at the qualifications. vote up, vote down. she will be c...

The pentagon's don't ask, don't tell policy. and this could wind up being one of the big issues when her hearings roll around. other critics point to kagan's lack of litigation experience, and her scant writings. there's not the usual paper trail that's used to vet a supreme court nominee. kagan has no judicial experience, never been a judge, and has only written a few legal articles. also, some worry that her lack of a public record means that nobody knows what kagan stands for except president obama. still, others question kagan's hiring record. when she was dean of harvard law school, four ...

To offend anyone. he apologized. the school said ignorance is no excuse. black face is an expression of racism. supreme court nominee elena kagan drawing criticism from both sides of the aisle as you've heard. on the right for her lack of experience. >> if a nominee does not have judicial experience, they should have substantial litigation experience. miss kagan has neither. >> that was senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. also right now on the left, she may not be liberal enough. that's the complaint there. some progressives there say she's too much of a blank slate to know how she stand...

>> it strikes me that if a nominee does not have judicial experience they should have substantial litigation experience. ms. kagan has neither. >> senate republicans pouncing today on the fact that elena kagan has never served as a judge. the last time someone who wasn't a judge was nominated to be a supreme court justice was in 2005 when president bush nominated white house counsel harriet myers to fill the seat of sandra day o'connor. that nomination lasted all of 25 days, wur upon mr. bush was forced to withdraw his pick for lack of political support. the relevant comparison between harriet...

Last year. i worked with her last year all the time. i think age probably had little to do with it. it's in her benefit as a weight in the scale. i think she -- it's her personal qualifications, her professional experience, her political mainstream aspects of her life. her personal life story which is extraordinary that i think is the reason she got the nomination. >> you've already heard from senator mcconnell, the republican leader kind of obtding to her qualifications saying she doesn't have much in the way of litigation experience either. first let's hear what senator mcconnell said. >> th...