Elena Kagan
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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 - Sponsored
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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 […]
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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 […] -
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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 […] -
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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 […] - Sponsored
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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 […] -
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Legal Stars of the New Administration
New lawyers to lead the nation are sending in their résumés. Already, UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley has received a choice position as part of Obama’s transition advisory board. (I wonder if he’s accepting resumes from his students?) Here’s an interesting choice for Edley and the rest of the transition team that […]
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