Posted on 02/10/2009 8:39:38 AM PST by Yosemitest
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose the dean at his alma mater, Harvard Law School, to represent the United States before the Supreme Court.
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan would be the first woman confirmed as solicitor general.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Her time at Harvard Law School didn’t overlap with Obama’s at all, but Kagan is tenuously connected with the president. She joined the staff at the University of Chicago Law School in 1991 and became tenured in 1995; Obama was on staff from 1993 to 2004. Kagan also clerked for Abner Mikva when he was on the D.C. Circuit court of appeals. Mikva, who is now a Chicago lawyer, is a close Obama mentor. He tried to get Obama to clerk for him, and later advised the politicians during campaign in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
Kagan was hired to be dean of Harvard Law School by Lawrence Summers, who was Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, went on to serve as president of Harvard University and is now an economic adviser to Barack Obama. She, in turn, hired Cass Sunstein away from University of Chicago Law School. Sunstein, who is married to Obama foreign policy adviser Samantha Power, is now head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for Obama. Obama is advised by a handful of other Harvard Law School professors such as Laurence Tribe, Charles Ogletree, Martha Minow and Dan Meltzer, who will serve as deputy White House counsel.
http://whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Elena_Kagan
more seemingly incestuous Chi-political relationships
She previously served as a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. From 1995 to 1999
Why do all roads lead back to Chicago??? Something seems so corrupt or tainted about every selection BHO makes...
Truly frightening.
I thought it was reported that she’s being selected as a Supreme Court Justice?
My family jewels just fell off...
She has never taken a case to verdict? She seems to be be a professor with only limited experience in the real world.
Is this a payback for the support 0 got from the homosexual community?
I will say she is the worst looking legal figure I have seen since Janet Reno.
Only the time will (likely) come when the SCOTUS itself is full of liberal, inexperienced judges who will rule socialist every time.
On the bright side, she looks to be a good heart attack candidate.
Who else could remove attention from the Porkulus Bill?
YES!!!
That's exactly what I was thinking.
“Ms. Kagan has never argued before the Supreme Court. In fact, she has never litigated a case to verdict or trial.”
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So much for basing appointments on merit and experience.”
She’s got the same experience as “Zero” which is zero.
Just like himself!
Ms. Kagan has never argued before the Supreme Court. In fact, she has never litigated a case to verdict or trial.”
So much for basing appointments on merit and experience.
Needs to be said again.
Scream from the mountain tops,
Not one word from the msm.
In lefty-land, academic credentials trump real-world experience every time.
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