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...School Dean Elena Kagan is in line to become Obama’s solicitor general, the third-ranking official in the Justice Department; former University President Lawrence H. Summers will lead his National Economic Council; Harvard Kennedy School professor John P. Holdren, an expert on climate change, will lead the administration’s science policy; and geneticist Eric S. Lander, the head of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, will chair Obama’s science and technology advisory council...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan will be nominated to serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s solicitor general, the administration’s representative to the Supreme Court, Obama announced in a press release Monday morning.If confirmed by the Senate, Kagan will represent the federal government, party to about two-thirds of cases brought before the high court, and play an integral role in guiding the administration’s interaction with the Supreme Court, working under Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric J. Holder.“I am honored and grateful, awestruck...
...confirmed by the Senate, she will serve as the solicitor general, a position widely regarded as a stepping stone to an appointment to the nation’s highest court...
...interview over the weekend, Charles Fried, one of Harvard's noted conservatives and a solicitor general under Ronald Reagan, said that “some of the justices might appreciate" that Kagan is a "fresh face...
...announcement marks a continuation of Obama's push to put in place his cabinet and key advisers sooner rather than later. By contrast, President Bush's first solicitor general, Theodore B. Olson, was nominated on Feb. 14, 2001 and did not take the oath of office until June of that year...