Elena Kagan Asked Straight Up: 'You Got What It Takes?'

WASHINGTON—Saying they didn’t want to waste any more time dicking around, members of the U.S. Senate began Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing Monday by asking the solicitor general point-blank if she had the goods to join the nation’s highest court. “I got your master’s thesis in front of me, I got some speeches you made while you were the dean of Harvard Law School, but Kagan, let’s cut the shit: You gonna be able to bring it or not?” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked the former Clinton policy adviser. “Because the American people deserve a justice who won’t crumble like a cupcake and run home to mommy when Second-Amendment-ruling time comes around.” After indicating that she was “fucking born ready,” Kagan was confirmed in a unanimous 100-0 vote.