{"id":5384,"date":"2010-06-29T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/06\/29\/reactions-to-kagan-confirmation\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:12","slug":"reactions-to-kagan-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5384","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to the Kagan Confirmation Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19369,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/content\\\/article\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/29\\\/AR2010062902652.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190809170722\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/content\\\/article\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/29\\\/AR2010062902652.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 06:57:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 06:57:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From the Washington Post <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/29\/AR2010062902652.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Judiciary Committee grills Elena Kagan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best &#8211; and most innovative &#8211; suggestion was made Patricia Wald, the former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Kagan will undoubtedly be a smart justice, though I am no clearer now than before as to what kind. How about, as an alternative to hearings, embedding a Rolling Stones reporter traveling with the candidate and her entourage for a few weeks before confirmation? <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post The Judiciary Committee grills Elena Kagan The best &#8211; and most innovative &#8211; suggestion was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[716,3008],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-confirmation-hearings","tag-elena-kagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}