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May 11, 2010

Leahy: Glad to See Nominee “From Outside the Judicial Monastery”
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The Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings probably will
start in late June or early July. On Monday Senate Judiciary Chair
Patrick Leahy of Vermont voiced support for the selection of Kagan.

Sen. Patrick Leahy: “I’m glad to see somebody from outside the judicial
monastery. Again, in our history, it’s only in recent decades that the
justices were all from the federal courts. We had—some of our most
dynamic courts have been those where they came from different
backgrounds. I worry when you’re in a judicial monastery that you don’t
have the kind of real-world experience you might have otherwise.”



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