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Early thoughts and questions about SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed via many links at How Appealing, it is soon to be official that President Obama will nominate former Harvard Law School Dean and current Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens.  Here are my first thoughts and questions in response to this nomination. As a matter of biology and biography, I am very pleased with the choice.  For my daughters' sake, I had hoped President Obama would add more women to the Supreme Court, and I am very excited that the Court will likely soon have three female Justices for the first time ever.  In addition, for substantive law reasons, I think younger is better for SCOTUS these days.  Lots of new technology issues are likely better understood by a Justice who knows her way around a computer, and thus SG Kagan's relative youth is a plus...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).