George LeMieux Takes Stand Against Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

While the U.S. Senate is expected to approve President Barack Obama naming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, U.S. Sen. George LeMieux of Florida said that he would join most of his fellow Republicans in opposing the nomination.

I am left without a solid base on which to judge how she would judge, said LeMieux. She has failed to meet the burden that is required of someone with no judicial record. She has failed to inform us on how she would judge as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. With no record to read, there is heightened scrutiny on the nominee. I did not have the opportunity to get full, forthcoming answers from Ms. Kagan when I questioned her. Instead, I got the same vapid, vacuous answers that she herself condemned in her law review article in the mid-1990s about judicial nomination hearings. If she had been more forthcoming, perhaps I would have been able to come to a different conclusion.