Obama Nominates Elena Kagan to United States Supreme Court

            Recently President Obama nominated the former dean of Harvard Law School and current Solicitor General to the United States Supreme Court.  Kagan has been a liberal force in academia and has represented the federal government before the Supreme Court for the last year.  The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman announced that her confirmation hearings will begin on June 28, 2010.  This will allow for the confirmation hearings to be completed in time for a final vote on the nomination before the Senate’s August recess.

            Kagan was nominated to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, and although recognized as liberal she will likely not represent a significant shift of the ideological balance that currently exists.  Kagan has never before sat as a judge on any level in the federal court system, and if confirmed will decide the first case of her career as a Supreme Court Justice.  While her scholarly writings and prior speeches offer a glimpse into her thoughts on a variety of controversial subjects that she will confront on the Supreme Court, the inability to review prior decisions she has written as a sitting judge leaves significant speculation that will certainly be the focus of questioning at her Senate confirmation hearings.

            As Advocates is currently working on a brief to the Supreme Court and will have further cases reach the Supreme Court within the next several years, likely including the Proposition 8 case, we are committed to praying for all involved as the nomination process moves forward.

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