Kagan & Company, Day Two

For the second day, confirmation hearings for Barack Obama's Supreme Court Justice nominee Elena Kagan are underway, and once again Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) hammered Kagan, a former dean of Harvard University's Law School and U.S. Solicitor General under President Obama with a long history of Liberal leanings. Sessions argued Kagan's personal politics led her to try to ban military recruiting from Harvard's hallowed halls.

For her part, Kagan admitted she thought "Don't Ask Don't Tell" discriminated against the university's gay and lesbian students, and that's what led her to enforce an eventually-overturned ban. She heaped praised on the military this morning, and suggested military recruiting actually increased during her tenure there. Sessions called her defense of the military and of her actions "not connected to reality".

Kagan has no judicial experience, and pledged her politics would be "kept separate" from her judgments on the highest court in the land if she were to be confirmed.