Elena Kagan nominated by Obama for Supreme Court
Elena Kagan has been nominated by President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court on Monday. If confirmed by senate, Solicitor General Kagan would be only third women on the high court.
ELENA KAGAN has been nominated by President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court on Monday. If confirmed by senate, Solicitor General Kagan would be only third women on the high court.
Saying her nomination as honor of lifetime, she further added, “She is honored and humbled by the nomination.”
“I look forward to working with the senate and thank you, Mr. President, for the honor of a lifetime.”
Democrats are, in all possibility, going to push it for approval before August recesses. She would be first person in 38 years to join the Supreme Court without first serving as the Judge.
Kagan is known for her brilliant legal viewpoint, open mindedness, liberal views and conservative friends. She already had the experience of successfully facing senate, in which she became Solicitor General last year. As solicitor General, she had argued six cases before the people who will become her colleagues if she wins Senate confirmation.
Kagan, well known for bringing together liberals and conservatives on Harvard’s notoriously fraction law school faculty. This balancing act led her rapid rise.
Kagan is now the first women solicitor and she would be only the fourth women to serve on the Supreme Court. She would be youngest justice in this current panel of judges.
President Bill Clinton nominated her to the federal appeals court in the Washington in 1999, but Republican controlled Senate never acted on the nomination.
Last year, the Senate confirmed her by the vote of 61-31, with only seven Republicans supporting her. However, the margin suggested that she would again prevail in a confirmation vote for the Supreme Court.
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