We first began discussing possible replacements for Justice Paul Stevens on April 19, 2010. Kagan was confirmed as Obama’s nomination on the May 10, 2010. This was followed by vapid Senate hearings which began June 28, 2010. Yesterday the Senate confirmed U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan (63 to 37) as the 112th justice to the Supreme Court, making her the fourth woman to sit on the court. Kagan along with Sotomayor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will make up the first group of three women serving on the court at the same time.
Yet despite all the media attention and hearings, we know little more then we did 108 days ago. She was selected as a consensus builder in the hope she would move the court a little to the left, saying anything else would be speculative. We will just have to wait for her first big case to find out what sort of judge this life long member of the Supreme Court will be.
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