Chuck Grassley actually said...

keeping people behind bars if it is not necessary is very much a costly product that hits states worse than it hits the Federal Government

the extent to which everybody has something to contribute to our society, we ought to encourage that contribution

In many respects, Ms. Kagan's career has been consumed more by politics than law, and this does worry many Americans.

while you were in favor of good ideas coming from wherever you can get them, the judges shouldn't be bound by foreign legal precedent.