Monday, May 10, 2010

Elena Kagan Chosen By Obama For Supreme Court

Writer BEN FELLER
Associated Press
Athens Banner-Herald
May 10, 2010

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds." She would be the court's youngest justice and give it three female members for the first time.

The nomination to replace liberal retiring Justice John Paul Stevens set the stage for a bruising confirmation battle, though mathematically Democrats should be able to prevail in the end.

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