President Barack Hussein Obama is set to pick as his Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. This comes as no surprise as her name has been circulating around now for weeks. Hopefully the Republicans will fight for full disclosure of her views and not rubber stamp her nomination.
President Barack Obama is to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his pick to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, NBC News reported Sunday.
Kagan would be the fourth woman ever nominated to the high court and continue a trend of Ivy League-educated lawyers who sit on the bench, after having graduated from Princeton University, Oxford University and Harvard Law School.
Unlike the others she would join on the bench, Kagan has never before served as a federal judge.
Earlier Attorney General Eric Holder, who is Kagan’s boss at the Justice Department, did little to dispel the notion that Kagan was the leading choice.
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