After a year and a half of hearings, including questioning over 800 witnesses, reviewing millions of pages of documents, and spending some $6 million in taxpayers' money, its final report is due to be delivered in a month.
Chief Judge W. Terry Ruckriegle of District Court, who allowed extended hearings and questioning of the woman by defense lawyers behind closed doors, gave no hint in his ruling about how he might decide on those detailed questions or when a ruling might come.
The most contentious part of the hearings occurred under questioning from Arlen Specter, a centrist Republican from Pennsylvania and a former prosecutor.
It will give those who do not understand or speak the language of criminal proceedings the right to interpretation facilities during police questioning, hearings and meetings with their lawyer.
The question of just what Ms. Kagan means by it -- and just what, precisely, her judicial philosophy is -- will be a core theme of the hearings when senators begin questioning her on Tuesday.
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On July 15, Dr. Kelly underwent a humiliating round of questioning in televised hearings before the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs.
It is also questioning whether, during hearings on his nomination to the court in 1999, he misrepresented when he first learned of the practice.
And though the panel has held other hearings in recent months, the questioning Tuesday of four top officials of the Bush and Clinton administrations offered the most exhaustive public examination of diplomatic and military failures in the years before Sept. 11.
