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"Elena Kagan Will Be Obama's Supreme Court Pick: Mike Allen"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new Huffington Post piece, which reports on an insider account that indicates that this news will be "officially" leaked on Sunday in anticipation of a Monday formal announcement.  Solicitor General Kagan has been the "leader in the clubhouse" since Justice Stevens announced his retirement, so this pick would not be at all surprising.  It still would be historic, as it would mean (assuming confirmation) that the US Supreme Court will have three female Justices for the first time in its history. For criminal justice fans, the prospect of a Justice Kagan is especially interesting because she has, to my knowledge, no tangible record whatsoever on any of the criminal justice issues that regularly come to the Supreme Court (and fills up much of the cert pool)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).