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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.If confirmed by the Senate, Kagan will represent the federal government, party...
Though Kagan has never argued a case before the Supreme Court, Fried said that her lack of experience before the court is secondary to her time at the Law School.
In an interview over the weekend, Charles Fried, one of Harvard's noted conservatives and a solicitor general under Ronald Reagan, said that “some of the justices might appreciate" that Kagan is a "fresh face."
“Several hundred Harvard Law students are about as tough an audience as you can get,” Fried said.
“I’m happy for her but sorry for us,” Fried added. “She’s a very hard person to replace.” During her time at the Law School, Kagan has taught constitutional and administrative law. She...