{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=9BBEE11B-62D4-4E5D-B822-5DD8C7A342C2", "ICYMI: Senator Risch, Justice Kagan Discuss Hunting, Second Amendment", "2016-09-09", "2016", "2016-09", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Jim Risch", "R000584", "www.risch.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "\u201cSen. James Risch, R-Idaho, told her that hunting was important to his constituents and questioned whether she could see that importance.\u201d\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\r\nJustice Elena Kagan talks about her warm relationship with her late colleague Antonin Scalia\r\nArizona Daily StarAugust 31, 2016By: Elizabeth Eaton\r\nSupreme Court Justice Elena Kagan reminisced Wednesday night about the late Justice Antonin Scalia during an appearance at the University of Arizona\u2019s law school \u2014 not with tears, but with laughter.\r\n\u2026\r\nThe confirmation process led to her friendship with Scalia, she said, because of an odd promise to an Idaho senator.\r\nBefore her confirmation, Kagan met with dozens of members of Congress, many of whom questioned her about her stance on the Second Amendment. Kagan, who grew up in New York City, said she had never shot or held a gun.\r\nSen. James Risch, R-Idaho, told her that hunting was important to his constituents and questioned whether she could see that importance. He spoke in length about his ranch where he often hunted, Kagan remembered. She said she understood where he was coming from and offered to join him on a hunting trip if he wanted to invite her. After her proposition, a \"look of abject horror\" passed over the senator's face, she said.\r\nSo instead, she made a promise.\r\n\"If I\u2019m lucky enough to be appointed, I\u2019ll ask Justice Scalia to take me hunting,\" she told Risch.\r\nAnd she did. After she was sworn in, Kagan told Scalia about how she had invited herself to one of his hunting trips .\r\n\"He thought it was so funny, he was on the floor laughing,\" she remembered.\r\nScalia took Kagan to his gun club and began teaching her gun safety and how to shoot.\u00a0After he declared her ready, the two began taking hunting trips together, which is when they began to bond. \u00a0Birds in Virginia, deer in Wyoming, duck in Mississippi\u00a0\u2014\u00a0over the years, the justices traveled, hunted and got to know each other better.\r\n\u2026\r\nLink to full article.\r\n\u00a0\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=9BBEE11B-62D4-4E5D-B822-5DD8C7A342C2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4685611240565777, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}