{"id":91,"date":"2010-06-14T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/06\/14\/research-scotus-nominee-elena-kagan\/"},"modified":"2010-06-14T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:55:50","slug":"research-scotus-nominee-elena-kagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/06\/14\/research-scotus-nominee-elena-kagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Research SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Elena<\/a>On May 10, 2010, President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.\u00a0 Kagan is President Obama\u2019s second nomination to the Court and, if confirmed, Kagan will be the fourth woman to serve on the nation\u2019s highest court.\u00a0 To learn more about Solicitor General Kagan and the Supreme Court nomination process, there are some high-quality resources on the web that one should access.\u00a0 Both the Library of Congress<\/a> (LOC)\u00a0 and the Georgetown Law Library<\/a>\u00a0 have extensive guides.\u00a0 Both sites provide access to Kagan\u2019s writing, including her law review articles, congressional documents, and briefs and transcripts of her arguments before the Supreme Court.\u00a0 The Georgetown site includes e-mails, press releases, and other writings from Kagan\u2019s tenure as Dean of Harvard Law School.\u00a0 Also available are documents prepared in Ms. Kagan\u2019s capacity as Associate White House Counsel to President Clinton.\u00a0 Of particular interest is the questionnaire<\/a>\u2014with responses\u2014submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which the Committee uses to begin gathering information about the nominee.<\/p>\n

You can also access materials about the nomination process.\u00a0 The Georgetown guide links to Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on the roles and actions of the President, Judiciary Committee, and the Senate<\/a> during the nomination process.\u00a0 Nomination hearings transcripts back to 1971 are available, as well as this intriguing CRS Report<\/a>\u00a0 on nominations that the Senate did not confirm.\u00a0 Be sure to check out the LOC guide<\/a> for links to videos and blogs covering the Kagan nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 10, 2010, President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.\u00a0 Kagan is President Obama\u2019s second nomination to the Court and, if confirmed, Kagan will be the fourth woman to serve on the nation\u2019s highest court.\u00a0 To learn more about Solicitor General Kagan […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[316],"tags":[486,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}