Elena Kagan
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Elena Kagan, Eliot Spitzer, Gay, Lesbians, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
It's Official: Elena Kagan Is Straight!
We’ve had plenty of unnamed sources insisting on the heterosexuality of Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The most notable was the anonymous administration official who told the Washington Post that Kagan isn’t gay, in response to an online column by conservative blogger Ben Domenech claiming otherwise. But there have been other such […] -
Contests, Elena Kagan, Pictures, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
Who Does SCOTUS Nominee Elena Kagan Look Like?
UPDATE: Vote in our Elena Kagan Look-A-Like Contest here. Every time we write about Solicitor General Elena Kagan (and we’re writing about her quite frequently since Obama tapped her for the Supreme Court), our readers immediately begin commenting on her looks. That is not unusual in these parts. Men and women are often superficial. Rather […] - Sponsored
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Elena Kagan, Law Professors, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential
Elena Kagan and Me: One Semester of Civ Pro With the New SCOTUS Nominee
I can count myself as one of the thousands of students that had Elena Kagan as a professor. She’s taught at the University of Chicago School of Law and Harvard Law School. I had her in 2000 — before she became Dean of Harvard Law School — for Civil Procedure my first semester 1L year. […]
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Elena Kagan, Law Professors, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, Sidney Thomas, Supreme Court
What Happens Next to the Unsuccessful Shortlisters?And a correction: Kagan and Dan Meltzer are besties.
Now that the fabulous Elena Kagan has been officially nominated to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, some folks have been wondering: What does the future hold for the unsuccessful shortlisters? Let’s consider them, one by one. 1. Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.): The brilliant D.C. Circuit judge — practically a “tenth […] -
Elena Kagan, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs -- The Elena Kagan Edition: 05.10.10
* Right now, the legal blogosphere is all Kagan, all the time. The first and most important question is: should you like her? [Gawker] * Lat and Kash demystify the confirmation process. [Washington Post] * I wonder who conservatives would prefer, Kagan or the Biblical Moses? [Washington Examiner] * Kagan’s record on hiring women and […] -
Elena Kagan, Law Professors, Law Reviews, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court
Taking A Closer Look at Elena Kagan's Description of Confirmation Hearings as a 'Vapid and Hollow Charade'
It’s Elena Kagan’s “wise Latina” comment. Just as Court watchers dug up a controversial, eight-year-old statement by Sonia Sotomayor last year, they have unearthed a law review article that Kagan authored in 1995 when she was a young law professor at the University of Chicago. In it, she criticized the Supreme Court confirmation hearings as […] -
Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, Politics, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential
Liveblogging Obama's Elena Kagan Announcement
President Obama is set to announce Elena Kagan as his next Supreme Court nominee. I’m liveblogging the press conference. Check it out below. Kagan Announcement -
Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, SCOTUS, Solicitor General's Office, Supreme Court
More Clues That It Will Be KaganJudge Wood was notified tonight that she's not the nominee.
Tomorrow President Obama will officially announce his nomination of Elena Kagan, current Solicitor General and former Harvard Law School dean, to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. The news might get leaked unofficially tonight, so stay tuned. We have no reason to question this prediction by Politico — and several reasons […] - Sponsored
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Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, Politics, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Kagan
Everywhere you go, people are buzzing that President Barack Obama has made his choice on the replacement for Justice John Paul Stevens. And the consensus is that the nominee will be Solicitor General Elena Kagan. Politico reports that David, Kash and I will be up late on Sunday: Look for President Obama to name his […] -
Barack Obama, Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, Gender, John Paul Stevens, Merrick Garland, Politics, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Sidney Thomas, Supreme Court
SCOTUS Speculation: Could It Be Wood?Ten reasons Obama might appoint Diane Wood.
Now that President Obama has interviewed the four finalists for the U.S. Supreme Court seat he has to fill — Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.), Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Judge Sidney Thomas (9th Cir.), and Judge Diane Wood (7th Cir) — the nominee could be announced any day now. Who will it be? We realize […] -
7th Circuit, Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, John Paul Stevens, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
Judicial Sight-ations: Justice Stevens, and Several Potential Successors, in Chicago
For Article III groupies, the InterContinental Hotel in Chicago was the place to be last night. The annual meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and Judicial Conference of the Seventh Circuit attracted a bevy of judicial superstars, who mixed and mingled at the conference’s grand banquet. The most notable luminary was Justice John Paul […] -
Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, Fantasy SCOTUS, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
FantasySCOTUS Predictions of the Next Justice: Team Kagan v. Team Wood v. Team Garland
Who will replace Justice John Paul Stevens? While pundits, savants, and oracles across the SCOTUSphere pontificate and read Article III tea leaves, FantasySCOTUS.net conducted extensive and detailed polling to predict the next Justice. We have invited our nearly 5,000 members – who represent some of the closest and most ardent Court watchers – to weigh […] -
Bill Clinton, Elena Kagan, Fabulosity, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Lesbians, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
Did Bill Clinton Just Join Team Kagan?And what team does Elena Kagan play for?
Shortly after Justice John Paul Stevens announced his upcoming retirement from the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan emerged as a leading candidate to fill his seat. The phrase “Team Kagan” started popping up all over the place (as we noted in our Twitter feed). Numerous users of Twitter and Facebook, as well as many […]
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Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, John Paul Stevens, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
Supreme Speculation: Who Will Obama Nominate to Replace John Paul Stevens?
For weeks, the media laundry machine has been circulating news of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s impending retirement. Now that the buzzer has gone off on that, it’s time to switch to the next cycle: speculation as to who President Barack Obama will nominate to replace him. President Obama has been dragging his feet […] -
Elena Kagan, John Paul Stevens, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Solicitor General's Office, Supreme Court
Is the Kagan Nomination a Done Deal?
With apologies to John Paul “I’m not dead yet” Stevens, speculation has been rampant about who will replace him, if he decides to retire. Many of the names that came up after Souter retired are bubbling back to the surface, but U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan has to be considered the front runner. Obama hasn’t […] -
Elena Kagan, SCOTUS, Securities Law, Supreme Court
Elena Kagan: Solicitous of Shareholders
You can’t go two clicks on the internet today without hearing something about the new term of the Supreme Court (or the NFL playoffs, or porn). I’ve got to agree with the WSJ Law Blog’s Ashby Jones that the most interesting SCOTUS related piece comes via Bloomberg and talks about Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s willingness […] -
9th Circuit, Elena Kagan, Fabulosity, Fashion, SCOTUS, Solicitor General's Office, Supreme Court
Solicitor General Elena Kagan: What Color Was Her Pantsuit?
In her excellent interview with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Solicitor General Elena Kagan poked gentle fun at the controversy surrounding what she should wear while arguing before the Supreme Court, as the first female Solicitor General. She quipped: “That this is the big question of the Washington Supreme Court […] -
Alex Kozinski, Elena Kagan, Fabulosity, Fashion, Shoes, Solicitor General's Office
At the Ninth Circuit Conference: Elena Kagan Likes Sensible Shoes
What should a female Solicitor General wear to the U.S. Supreme Court? It’s a hot-button issue. For some excellent analysis, see Dahlia Lithwick. The topic of SCOTUS-appropriate attire for a Solicitrix General keeps coming up. It popped up yesterday in Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s interview with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, at the Ninth Circuit Judicial […] -
Elena Kagan, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Martha Minow
Martha Minow Named New Dean of Harvard Law School
A replacement for Elena Kagan as dean of Harvard Law School has been named. It’s the well-liked law school professor Martha Minow. Harvard University President Drew Faust announced the news to HLS students, today: I am delighted to let you know that Martha Minow has agreed to serve as the next Dean of Harvard Law […] -
Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, Reader Polls, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Supreme Speculation: And Then There Were Six
As noted in yesterday’s Morning Docket, President Obama has reportedly narrowed his search for a Supreme Court justice to a shortlist of six. From CNN: Among the finalists are federal appeals court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Wood, and Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, said the […]