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Akin Gump?s Goldstein: Kagan Will Be the Next Scotus Appointment

By Ashby Jones

We’ll keep this one short.

If you read one piece on Tuesday about the U.S. Supreme Court, we suggest it be Tom Goldstein’s piece over at Scotusblog on the likelihood of what might happen with comings and goings on the court heading into the summer.

We’ll likely ruin some of the fun here, but that shouldn’t keep you from reading the thoughtful and artfully done piece in full. It’s worth it.

Goldstein’s predictions: Justice John Paul Stevens will step down at some point this year; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will keep on trucking.

Who will replace Stevens, in Goldstein’s mind? Of the frontrunners, Seventh Circuit Judge Diane Wood, D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland and Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Kagan will likely get the nod, largely because Kagan doesn’t have a “material track record” on many issues.

For Ed Whelan’s response to Goldstein over at the National Review Online, click here.

In actual doings at One First St., N.E., the Court on Tuesday ruled 9-0 that a corporation’s principal place of business is where its top executives work, typically at the corporate headquarters, rather than where its products or services are sold. Click here for the opinion, penned by Justice Breyer.

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).