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...CORRECTION APPENDED] In 2007, Law School Dean Elena Kagan was passed over to be president of Harvard University. This week, the next president of the United States selected her to be his chief representative to the Supreme Court...
...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...
...School students and faculty, although excited at the prospect of their dean ascending into the national spotlight and possibly to the Supreme Court, lamented the loss of the woman they said has made the school a friendlier, more diverse, and vibrant institution...
...state law, a candidate has one calendar week to contest the results of a recount to a three-judge panel appointed by the chief justice of the state's supreme court. Coleman, who led the race by 215 votes on Election Day, filed suit the very next day. He declared, in an "equal protections" clause argument, that there had been inconsistencies in the way in which counties tallied absentee ballots that election officials had mistakenly rejected. Moreover, Coleman alleges that 150 ballots were counted twice and that the board incorrectly included 133 ballots that had gone missing at a Minneapolis...
Coleman also wants to get roughly 650 improperly rejected absentee ballots included in the results. The state supreme court ruled earlier - in response to a petition from Coleman's campaign that the absentee ballots shouldn't be counted - that both campaigns must agree upon which of the roughly 1,600 improperly rejected absentee ballots to include in the results. They came to a consensus on about 950 of those ballots. When asked about Coleman's argument that all of those improperly rejected absentee ballots should be counted, Solem, the trucker says, "Well, I guess they should count those...