Contours of what looks to be a sharply partisan Senate Judiciary Committee on Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination are becoming clearer after several key panel members laid out views on Kagan in recent days.

Judiciary ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., like Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., has faulted what Sessions calls Kagan's tendency to advance "pretty clear liberal views," through legal means and her specific step to limit military recruiters access while serving as dean of Harvard Law School.

Sessions on Wednesday returned to the recruiting issue. In what may be his most pointed attack yet, he called Kagan's decision unethical, illegal, arrogant and discriminatory toward veterans.

"Perhaps to some in elite progressive circles... it is acceptable to discriminate against patriots who fight and die for our freedoms, but the vast majority of Americans, I think, correctly know such behavior is wrong, and has an arrogance about it," Sessions said. He accused Kagan of "clear, open defiance of federal law."

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