Today is Day 2 of the confirmation hearings on Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination to the Supreme Court.
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This morning began with Alabama's conservative and anti-gay Republican Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III questioning Kagan about military recruitment controversy on Harvard Law School's campus while she served as dean, reports CBS News.
"'The military had full access to our students at all times before I became dean and after,' Kagan said, trying to explain the history of the situation. Kagan clarifies, "I do oppose the don't ask don't tell policy, and I did then.She said that as dean, she tried to make sure recruiters had access to students while also protecting the school's anti-discrimination policy as well as its gay students. Sessions responded, 'You couldn't do both, as it became clear as time went on.' Responding to a charge from Sessions that Harvard may have been out of compliance with the law in its change in military recruiting policy, Kagan said, 'We were never out of compliance with the law.'"
If confirmed, Elena Kagan would become the fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. This would become the first time that three women served simultaneously.
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