Live: Elena Kagan Senate confirmation hearing
9:35 a.m. EDT
Day Three of the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings is now underway, with the Supreme Court nominee facing a friendly round of questioning from the remaining members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — all junior Democrats.
As Jim Oliphant reports Wednesday morning, the proceedings included a feisty exchange with the panel’s leading Republican, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, over access to the Harvard Law campus for military recruiters during Kagan’s time as dean. Sessions accused Kagan of acting “without legal authority” to bar recruiters from the school’s Office of Career Services, saying she treated the armed forces as “second class.” Kagan said she was simply following the law.
