Obama makes choice for Supreme Court nomination

The article, "Obama Picks Kagan, Scholar but Not Judge, for Court Seat," discusses Obama's choice to nominate Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court Justice. Ms. Kagan has some impressive credentials: she studied at both Oxford and Harvard Law, she was the dean of Harvard law school, and for the past year has served as the United States solicitor general. However, if confirmed, she will be the first Justice since Thurgood Marshall to not have prior judgeship experience before serving on the Supreme Court. Some critics are concerned about her lack of experience, but President Obama insist that she is "one of the nation's foremost legal minds."
Analysts predict "a fight over her confirmation but not necessarily an all-out war." The White House hopes that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings by July 4.

-Mary M. and Maddie R.

Kagan Supreme Court Nominee

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.

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