Introducing his Supreme Court nominee to the nation, President Barack Obama on Monday May 10, 2010 portrayed U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as a guiding force for a fractured court and a champion of typical Americans. She would be the youngest justice on the court and give it three opera lovers for the first time in history. Kagan, if confirmed, will join the Court's other two opera-loving justices: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.
A front-page story in today's New York Times reports: "She was the opera-loving, poker-playing, glass-ceiling-shattering first woman to be dean of Harvard Law School, where she reached out to conservatives (she once held a dinner to honor Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) and healed bitter rifts on the faculty with gestures as simple as offering professors free lunch, just to get them talking."
Kagan, who has never married, adopted her father's love of opera, the New York Mets and the law.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/politics/10kagan.html
Maybe I should send Kagan a copy of my book, Significant Moments, before she becomes a protectee of the U.S. Marshal Service!
http://www.archive.org/details/SignificantMoments
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“She was one of the most strategic people I’ve ever met, and that’s true across lots of aspects of her life,” said John Palfrey, a law professor who was hired at Harvard by Ms. Kagan. “She is very effective at playing her cards in every setting I’ve seen.”
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