Kagan questionnaire released
- 05/18/10 04:42 PM ET
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday released a 202-page questionnaire completed by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.
White House staff delivered the document, which is typically filled out by nominees, to the panel earlier on Tuesday.
"Solicitor General Kagan has promptly returned the Committee’s bipartisan questionnaire," Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said in a statement. "The White House has already requested that the Clinton Library expedite requests for materials about her work in the Clinton administration. These materials, along with the record we compiled last year in connection with her nomination to be Solicitor General of the United States, put us well down the road toward our preparation for her confirmation hearing."
Kagan is still in the process of meeting with individual senators and said that she intends to announce the start date of her confirmation hearing "soon."
If confirmed, Kagan said she would recuse herself from all cases in which she appears as the counsel of record from her time as solicitor general in the Obama administration.
"I would also consult with my colleagues in any case where recusal might be advisable," she said, including cases involving Harvard University, where she was dean of the law school.
Kagan said President Barack Obama informed her that she was his nominee on May 9, one day before she was officially announced as the nominee.
She lists her personal net worth as being $1.76 million.
White House staff delivered the document, which is typically filled out by nominees, to the panel earlier on Tuesday.
"Solicitor General Kagan has promptly returned the Committee’s bipartisan questionnaire," Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said in a statement. "The White House has already requested that the Clinton Library expedite requests for materials about her work in the Clinton administration. These materials, along with the record we compiled last year in connection with her nomination to be Solicitor General of the United States, put us well down the road toward our preparation for her confirmation hearing."
Kagan is still in the process of meeting with individual senators and said that she intends to announce the start date of her confirmation hearing "soon."
If confirmed, Kagan said she would recuse herself from all cases in which she appears as the counsel of record from her time as solicitor general in the Obama administration.
"I would also consult with my colleagues in any case where recusal might be advisable," she said, including cases involving Harvard University, where she was dean of the law school.
Kagan said President Barack Obama informed her that she was his nominee on May 9, one day before she was officially announced as the nominee.
She lists her personal net worth as being $1.76 million.
Kagan Questionaire Committee of the Judiciary
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