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By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:BREAKING NEWS .... OBAMA TO NOMINATE KAGANOn Friday it was our Governor naming Joe Fernandez to a Circuit Court seat. And today, President Obama will nominate Elena Kagan at the nation's 112th justice. Kagan is currently the Solicitor General of the US.Assuming Kagan wins confirmation, she will be the lone justice among the nine that did not sit on the Federal bench. In fact, she will be the first justice in nearly four decades without any prior judicial experience. (Name the last one?)Kagan is 50 years old and a past Dean of Harvard Law School. She earned degrees from Princeton, Oxford and Harvard. She clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was the last Solicitor General to go from that position to the Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).