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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 to about two-thirds of cases brought before the high court, and play an integral role in guiding the administration’s interaction with the Supreme Court, working under Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric J. Holder.“I am honored and grateful, awestruck...
...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...
...addition, during their time at Harvard Law School, which did not overlap, both Kagan and Obama served as research assistants to constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe ‘62, who in recent years has generously praised Kagan and emerged as a close adviser to Obama...
...Kagan has supported Obama, a Law School graduate, in the past, and the two met when they served on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in the early and mid-1990s...
Faust said that she will consider appointing an acting dean to run the Law School if Kagan departs, but that "the nature and timing of our own next steps [are] dependent on the course of the Senate's confirmation process." —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...