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Senators say they do not want elena kagan on the supreme court. the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, alaska senator lisa murkowski, and utah senator orrin hatch all say they will oppose kagan's nomination. hatch called kagan a brilliant scholar but questioned her legal experience. minority leader mcconnell questions whether kagan would be an impartial jurist when applying the law. with a democratic majority in the senate kagan's confirmation is still viewed as all but certain. and an unmanned cargo spacecraft went way off course and missed its rendevous with the international space st...

Harvard's existing policy and kicked the military out of the recruiting office in violation of federal law. her actions punished the military and demeaned our soldiers as they were courageously fighting for our country in two wars overseas. as someone who feels the burden of sending such young men and women into harm's way, and you spent much time drafting and redrafting legislation to ensure military recruiters were treated fairly on campus, i can't take this issue lightly. >> one of the key questions today is whether kagan will answer the questions that she gets from senators. we talk yester...

Firedog lake. the primary line of questioning around ms. kagan on her first day of having been made the official nominee is there doesn't seem to be that much of a paper trail. people don't feel like they have a sense of where she's coming from. >> i think that's fair. it's not as though she's been a judge for 20 years writing about the tough issues that confront the judge. what you have seen is someone who can frame legal issues and argued before the supreme court in her capacity as solicitor general and as a policy adviser at the white house and dean of harvard law school has managed to work...

Comes off looking like amateur wife swapping. but a spouse would know better than to divulge kagan's nickname. >> shorty. >> she's confident, she's intelligent, she is short. >> reporter: so short at 5'3", that president obama gallantly -- >> let me get this out for you. >> reporter: -- pulled out a pedestal for kagan to step on to. not that we in the press ever use anything to make us easier to see. whether kagan climbs to the highest judicial rung may hinge on the argument that she's never even been a judge. >> she hasn't spent one day in a robe. >> reporter: oh, yeah? what do you think this...

Anxiety? >> it's that blank slate that governor spitzer talked about. it's not just choice although that's part of it. it's also the role of corporations in the united states. it's also in particular executive power. the obama administration has continued the bush administration's policy of expanding executive power in ways that threaten the constitution and we have nothing but a blank slate really to know about whether kagan is going to allow that to expand. when you look at the last eight years, ten years, the only thing that saved certain rights in this country was the fact that the supreme...