Awesome Video: Sessions blasts Kagan nomination, rebuffs Schumer
This speech yesterday at the Judiciary Committee hearing before passing Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate is not notable so much for the attack on judicial activism by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as for his response to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). After Sessions talks about the apparently old-fashioned virtue of judicial neutrality, Schumer interrupts Sessions to challenge him on the recent Citizens United decision. Schumer says that some of his colleagues didn’t find that a “neutral” outcome, and Sessions politely but firmly puts Schumer in his place:






An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
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