With President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, Kagan’s legal career moved into the spotlight.
If confirmed, Kagan would replace John Paul Stevens, who is retiring at the age of 90. You can get complete coverage of Kagan’s nomination from Reuters.com.
Legal Current chatted about Kagan’s selection with Susan Low Bloch, a professor at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C., and co-author of Bloch, Jackson, and Krattenmaker’s Inside the Supreme Court: The Institution and Its Procedures, 2d., published by Thomson Reuters, Legal.
In this audio clip, Bloch says the fact that Kagan has never been a judge should not work against her. She points to some big names who were non-judges before being seated on the Supreme Court:
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But, as for the confirmation hearings, Bloch says Kagan will be questioned vigorously. “There will be senators who are troubled by the fact she has no judicial record… people will be troubled by the fact there are some areas for which she has no public position. It’ll be contentious, but I think at the end of the day she’ll definitely get confirmed.”
Look for more from professor Bloch in the next Legal Current podcast, posted on Monday, May 17th.
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