{"id":6390,"date":"2010-08-03T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2010-08-03T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:03:35","slug":"senator-sessions-kagan-would-be-an-activist-liberal-progressive-politically-minded-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6390\/senator-sessions-kagan-would-be-an-activist-liberal-progressive-politically-minded-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Sessions:  Kagan would be &#8220;an activist, liberal, progressive, politically-minded judge&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, the Senate began\u00a0its floor debate on\u00a0the confirmation of Elena Kagan to serve a lifetime appointment on the United States Supreme Court.\u00a0 Judiciary Committee Ranking Republican Jeff Sessions did one heck of a bang up job laying out the case <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">against<\/span> <\/em>her confirmation during his opening statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions stated that Kagan&#8217;s record\u00a0leaves &#8220;no doubt what kind of judge she would be:\u00a0 An activist, liberal, progressive, politically-minded judge who would not be happy simply to decide cases, but will seek to advance her causes under the guise of judging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Senator Sessions&#8217; opening remarks, which highlight everything you need to know about Elena Kagan, in their entirety below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3J0_DSLzvYA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3J0_DSLzvYA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, the Senate began\u00a0its floor debate on\u00a0the confirmation of Elena Kagan to serve a lifetime appointment on the United States Supreme Court.\u00a0 Judiciary Committee Ranking Republican Jeff Sessions did one heck of a bang up job laying out the case against her confirmation during his opening statement. Sessions stated that Kagan&#8217;s record\u00a0leaves &#8220;no doubt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[591,1649,1650,284],"class_list":["post-6390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-elena-kagan","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-opening-remarks","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}