Legal Niches

POTUS SCOTUS Pick: Elena Kagan

By james_fudge

President Obama announced this morning the nomination of former Harvard Law School Dean and current Solicitor General Elena Kagan. While there may be some slight contention in confirmation hearings that are expected to happen sometime in July, Kagan will more than likely be confirmed. Kagan will replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

The good news for anyone agonizing over this nomination is that it does not change the balance of power currently in the Supreme Court, though some worry that much of Kagan's ideology is unknown and will probably remain so even after being grilled by the senate.

While Kagan may not be a shoe-in, there doesn't appear to be any real obstacles in her way; if anything the most obvious issue may be that she has no experience being a judge and very little being a litigator. Nevertheless, President Obama, in his announcement this morning, asked the law makers to get to work on confirming her: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).