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May 10, 2010

Kagan: Untried, Untested, and Ready

Emily Bazelon, Slate


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Oh, the virtues of untried youth. Sure, that's an exaggerated way to describe Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who will be, according to the New York Times and other news outlets, Obama's Supreme Court nominee. But at 50, Kagan is close to a decade younger than the other front-runners. And she's never been a judge. That might seem like an odd qualification for a Supreme Court justice. But it means she"”and the White House"”don't have to worry about explaining a lot of persnickety legal opinions. You know, the kind that would prove she actually would be the sort of justice that Obama's Democratic base would like.

 

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