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Despite this cross-aisle experience, Kagan is not new to partisan battles. When Clinton nominated Kagan for a spot as a judge on the D.C. Circuit in 1999—one of the most prestigious judgeships—the Republican-controlled Senate allowed her nomination to expire...
...Kagan, who specializes in constitutional law and civil procedure, attributes the appearance of her name on Kerry’s rumored short lists to her status as a “failed judicial nominee...
...Although Kagan has a political background with the Democrats, she says she has not done any political campaigning “whatsoever” for today’s election...
Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 wrote in an e-mail yesterday that he had “no doubt that Elena Kagan would make a superb Supreme Court Justice and she would be easily confirmed.” But Tribe added that he hoped a decision would not come in haste...
...sake and for the sake of the good health of whoever would have to leave the Court to create a vacancy that we have at least a breathing spell before President Kerry had to nominate someone to the Court,” said Tribe, who, like Kagan, specializes in constitutional law and who has been suggested for Supreme Court nomination...