On May 10, 2010, President Obama plans to make an announcement to the White House to replace Justice John Paul Stevens with our Solicitor General Elena Kagan. Kagan is fifty years old and is known to be the "front-runner" for the nominations. Receiving her law degree from Harvard and Dean of the Law School, Kagan has the qualifications of becoming a Supreme Court Justice due to her education as well as her minority representation of women. If confirmed, Kagan would be the fourth women in history to serve on the Supreme Court and making this the first time in history for three women to be on the Court at the same time. Through the nomination process, qualifications such as education, judicial experience, representation, and minority status are all factors for the final confirmation from the Senate for a new Justice. Although Kagan has the education, minority status, and same political representation as Obama (as we know of), she has no judicial experience, having the potential of strong opposition from the Republicans.
GLeeper & AHillary
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