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Elena Kagan to Serve as Solicitor General

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Congratulations to Elena Kagan -- currently dean of Harvard Law School (and teacher of my administrative law class) -- on being named as the nominee for Solicitor General. I'm reminded of the previous Harvard Law professors who turned down the chance to be nominated as Solicitor General -- Felix Frankfurter turned down Roosevelt, and Paul Freund turned down Kennedy. In fact, I seem to recall reading at one point that Frankfurter (by then on the Supreme Court) advised Freund that a Harvard Law professor should view any government position except the Supreme Court as a demotion. Elena (like Charles Fried) apparently doesn't share that rather self-serving view.

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).