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Obama to Nominate Kagan as Justice

By Steve Hall

That's the title of the New York Times headline.  LINK  The article is by Peter Baker and Jeff Zeleny. President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation?s 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country?s future, Democrats close to the White House said Sunday. After a monthlong search, Mr. Obama informed Ms. Kagan and his advisers on Sunday of his choice to succeed the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. He plans to announce the nomination at 10 a.m. Monday in the East Room of the White House with Ms. Kagan by his side, said the Democrats, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the decision before it was formally made public...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).