U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is being praised for healing rifts as dean of Harvard Law School, but she also has a tough side, as Above the Law blogger…
An already convoluted case concerning the power of federal courts to intervene in government decisions about where to transfer detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison has been further complexified…
Elena Kagan’s personality type appears to be in the same mold of the “Organization Kids” who joined elite colleges under a “meritocratic system” and displayed an aversion to intellectual risk,…
Elena Kagan’s stance on the hot-button issue of abortion could be a new issue in her confirmation hearings, now that documents have surfaced in which she urged then-President Clinton to…
After this morning’s announcement by President Barack Obama that he had selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court…
A planned contempt hearing today for an unidentified juror accused of violating the judge’s instructions by watching a YouTube video about a reckless homicide case…
After weeks of speculation, it was leaked yesterday that Elena Kagan would be President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee. It’s doubtful many were surprised by the news,…
Corrected: President Obama has introduced his U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as a person who embodies the same “excellence, independence, integrity and passion for the law” as the man…
A classmate who attended high school in the 1970s with Solicitor General Elena Kagan says she had an ambitious goal at the time: to be a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
President Obama has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan to succeed retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, according to reports by Politico and NBC…