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Elena kagan has a stealthy record. on those matters where she's been vocal, clear she's indulged her policy preferences. you refer to the solomon amendment, excluded military recruiters from campus during wartime at the same time gave access to law firms detaining guantanamo. you have someone supposedly picked because of real life experience but there isn't much experience to speak of in terms of real life. no judicial experience o. >> the lack of judicial experience already from at least her supporters been shot down because they point to justice william renquist, the chief justice. he had no...

Long played a crucial role shaping the court's decisions. some of the great justices in american history like justice sandra day o'connor, who had been in the arizona legislature, or justice louis brandeis, hugo black, defender of the first amendment, who had been a u.s. senator, were not federal judges before they were nominated to the u.s. supreme court. chief justice william renquist had never been a federal judge before he was first nominated to the supreme court. chief justice warren who came to the supreme court with real world experience as a state attorney general and governor recogniz...

Harvard law degree. three others yale. i should say four others yale. clearly that's an ivy league background. judicial monastery, talking about being a judge. it is true elena kagan has not been a judge. the first nonjudge in 40 years as william renquist. as people point out william renquist went on to be chief justice and he was not a judge, so that wasn't a problem. the president wanted real life experience, excellence, experience, integrity, a passion for the law. he characterized her as a trailblazer, not only the first woman dean of the harvard law school but first solicitor general. she...

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...