President Obama Likely To Nominate Elena Kagan To SC
President Barack Obama is likely to nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court today, replacing retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
If confirmed, the 50-year-old Harvard trained academic would be the third Jewish member of the current court.
Although, no official word has come out of White House so far, it is expected that Obama would made the announcement at 10 a.m. today.
U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla has hailed Kagan's selection, even without official confirmation saying, "As the first woman dean of Harvard Law School and the nation’s first woman solicitor general, Kagan is a pioneer in her own right who is driven by clear thinking, not ideology."
But, Kagan's elevation to the coveted post is looking quite dicey as her track record doesn't suggest much about her judicial philosophy. And Senate inquisitors may ask questions, which can trouble Kagan dueing her upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Kagan is unlikely to face any opposition from the right but it's the left that's going after her. Salon's Glenn Greenwald, who is serving as a kvetcher-in-chief, has assembled a bill of particulars that sum up the some of the doubts like her supposed "connection" to Goldman Sachs. Greenwald links to Digby, which notes that in 2008, Kagan had received $10,000 for serving as a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute.
