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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky questioned Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on a series of notes she had written while serving as a political adviser in the Clinton administration.

On one page, Kagan scribbled that a proposed ban on soft-money donations would “affects Repubs, not Dems!” McConnell rightly seized on these documents to question whether “Ms. Kagan’s work in the Clinton White House reveals a woman who was committed to advancing a political agenda â€" a woman who was less concerned about objectively analyzing the law than the ways in which the law could be used to advance a political goal.”

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