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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...
...Kagan added that she viewed the post as an opportunity to "help advance this nation's commitment to the rule of law at what I think is a critical time in our history." If confirmed, Kagan would be the first female solicitor general, apart from Barbara D. Underwood, who served as acting solicitor general for the first few months of the Bush administration...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, who is rumored to be president-elect Barack Obama’s choice for solicitor general, won praise over the weekend from one of Ronald Reagan’s solicitors general, who said in an interview that she is a “fresh face” that “some of the justices might appreciate...
...endorsement came from professor Charles Fried, the Law School’s best known conservative and an academic who served as solicitor general from 1985 to 1989 and as a judge from...
...solicitor general, the United States’ chief legal advocate, Kagan would represent the U.S. government before the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The United States is party to about two-thirds of cases brought before the high court...