WASHINGTON (TYDN) -- Supreme Court-nominee Elena Kagan conceded here Friday on her fourth day of confirmation hearings that "the sky is blue," a surprising revelation about her judicial temperament that Republicans and some Democrats said verged on judicial activism, TheYellowDailyNews has learned.
"This outrageous statement, that she says the color of the sky is blue, underscores that she has already made up her mind on that issue, and is likely to vote on cases from a personal, not legal, viewpoint," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, the ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in an exclusive interview with TheYellowDailyNews. "It's an alarming position because the sky isn't always blue."
Insiders, speaking to TheYellowDailyNews on condition of anonymity and granted anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, suggested Kagan's once-certain confirmation is now clouded in uncertainty.
Until Friday morning, Kagan, the nation's solicitor general, was viewed by many here to have sealed her confirmation. During her first three days of hearings, the former Harvard Law School dean had distanced herself from appearing to be a judicial activist. She had refused to answer a barrage of legal questions about her beliefs on any subject.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, in response to calls that the president withdraw Kagan's nomination in a scandal dubbed "Sky is Blue-gate," implored senators to remain levelheaded.
"I have reminded them that Ms. Kagan has declined to address questions about the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Third Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, the Seventh Amendment, the Eighth Amendment, the Ninth Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, the Eleventh Amendment, the Twelfth Amendment, the Thirteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment, the Sixteenth Amendment, the Seventeenth Amendment, the Eighteenth Amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment, the Twentieth Amendment, the Twenty-first Amendment, the Twenty-second Amendment, the Twenty-third Amendment, the Twenty-fourth Amendment, the Twenty-fifth Amendment, the Twenty-sixth Amendment and the Twenty-seventh Amendment," Reid said in an exclusive interview with TheYellowDailyNews.
"This shows that she is not a judicial activist and highlights that the confirmation process is alive and well," Reid added.
Kagan's gaffe came at the end of four days of grueling peppering from Judiciary Committee members, who also asked her views, but got no response, about slavery, immigration, school segregation, child pornography, abortion, gun control, civil procedure, criminal procedure, the death penalty, voting rights, states rights, civil rights, free-speech rights, intellectual property and a host of other issues.
In what Reid described as "politically underhanded and objectionable," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, asked Kagan if she agreed with him "that the sky is blue?"
A dramatic tone of silence befell the hearing room, as onlookers wondered how Kagan would respond.
"The good senator from Arizona," Kagan replied, "you are correct, the sky is blue."
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