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Calling for at least 12 years experience in the practice of law. and they mean actual practice of law like former justices rehnquist and powell. not only is ms. kagan's background unusual for a supreme court nominee it is not how she demonstrating a keen understanding how the law affects the lives of the american people. ms. kagan's experience draws from a world whose sign posts are distant from most americans, manhattan's upper west side, princeton, harvard, and upper reaches of the democratic legal establishment. in 14 years as a professor she published only nine articles, two were book revi...

Some of the issues with our candy crowley on cnn's "state of the union." >> you don't think at this point, you don't see any signs of a republican filibuster? >> i would say it's premature. we know she has expressed hostility to second-amendment rights, saying she wasn't sympathetic to the arguments of gun owners when she clerked for chief justice or justice thurgood marshall. we know that on a number of areas, the hot-button issues of the day she's been very much involved in refusing to allow military recruiters to come to harvard, notwithstanding the fact that they receive federal dollars an...

School. >> they did haveccesso udentshrough militaryroups and veterans group associated with campus. my questi is,o you think as some republicans have suggested, she has radical views about the military? or do you think at's an overstatemenand unfair? >>look, i don't know. all we kw is the issue with regard to solomon amendment. i think thecoittee ought to look into it. heecorset be deveped. >> leme turn to the issue of the bp oil spill which the esident was quite angry about after the appearae by ceos on capil hillinuding the ceo of bp. y heard senor scher say there ought to be more effort on...

Unbelievable problem that our great universities were denying the military the right to come on campus. it was a long battle. it was controversial even at harvard. when she became dean, they were allowed to come on campus. the law was being enforced. later it was challenged and she at various points unlawfully stopped the military from coming on campus, even though the law was still in force. eventually she filed two briefs attacking the law. one in the supreme court that was rejected 8-0 by the supreme court. and eventually the solomon amendment was upheld and the military could go on campus,...

Treatis. this is advising president clinton how to thread the needle between one abortion bill and an amendment and what he should do in order to get cover when the senate passes a different bill. so i look at this as analogous to what she did at harvard when the whole solomon amendment military recruiters came up. she's just a really good tactician. she's a great strategist. now if she -- you expect her to be bill brennan and fling up her arms and say, i quit. but for the right of women to choose, i quit. she's not that person. but it seems to me that this tells you more about her political s...