From the ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Rep. Joe Sestak seized on Sen. Arlen Specter’s vote last year against Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s newest pick for the Supreme Court, as the challenger seeks to win over undecided and liberal Democrats in the Pennsylvania primary.
Specter, then a Republican, voted against Kagan’s nomination as solicitor general in March 2009. In a statement on Monday, Sestak said he expects Specter “may backtrack from his earlier vote on Ms. Kagan this week in order to help himself in the upcoming primary election, but the people of Pennsylvania have no way of knowing where he will stand after May 18.”
Specter responded that he would take a fresh approach in considering Kagan’s nomination to the high court. He praised the first woman Harvard Law School dean as a pioneer…
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