Elena Kagan, recién confirmada al Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos, dijo en 1995, mientras era profesora en la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Chicago, lo siguiente respecto al proceso de evaluación y confirmación de los candidatos y candidatas al Tribunal Supremo:
'When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public…. Such hearings serve little educative function, except perhaps to reinforce lessons of cynicism that citizens often glean from government. Neither can such hearings contribute toward an evaluation of the Court and a determination whether the nominee would make it a better or worse institution.
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a nominee can say a great, great deal before making a statement that, under this standard, nears the improper. A nominee, as I have indicated before, usually can comment on judicial methodology, on prior case law, on hypothetical cases, on general issues like affirmative action or abortion'.
¿Alguien sabe qué se le ha preguntado (si algo) y qué ha dicho el poco conocido candidato a nuestro Tribunal Supremo, en la única (llamada) vista que se celebrará hoy para su confirmación?.
Cita obtenida del artículo de Ronald Dworkin sobre el proceso de confirmación de Kagan: http://www.nybooks.com/art