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She, of course, president obama's pick to be the next person on the supreme court. of lots of high drama, because you add into that that today, the u.s. senate lost its oldest and longest-serving member, senator robert byrd of west virginia died early this morning. so lots of activity, lots of history going on. i'm candy crowley. >> and i'm john king. welcome to our special coverage of the elena kagan hearings. in this case, the supreme court nomination for this young president, just a year-and-a-half into his term, this will be his second. justice sonia sotomayor breezed through confirmation,...

She once served as a staff attorney. >> she was critical in 1995 in an interview when she was a law professor in chicago, critical of the process, the confirmation hearings, saying that the nominee owes it to the public, to the senators, to answer questions directly and that the senators quite honestly owe it to the american people and the process to ask specific and directed questions that really we need to know more about the nominee. what do you think? will those words come back to haunt or help her during the confirmation hearing? >> she's going to hear that article over and over again, i ...

In a fair and judicious way. >> racially charged? goodwin liu? really? here's why that charge might sound familiar. >> many of judge so the omoyerdd my i don't. >> the wise latina woman, a wise latina comment. >> justice so t. >> that of course was from last summer during the confirm hearing of president obama's first nominee. this summer will be the nomination hearing for president obama's second supreme court nominee. we don't yet know who that is, but good win liu's confirmation hearing to an appeals court may

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