Reply #13: It looks like Elena Kagan for SCOTUS – could shift court to the right

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It looks like Elena Kagan for SCOTUS – could shift court to the right
By Rick Unger
May 8, 2009

White House ‘insiders’ are reporting that an announcement on Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court will likely come on Monday and that Elena Kagan, current Solicitor General and past Dean of the Harvard Law School, will get the nod.

This may not be very good news for the nation’s progressives.

While there is really no telling where Kagan will fall on key legal issues to come, what we know about her certainly indicates that she is far more likely than the Justice she is replacing to push the court to the right. When you consider that this appointment is to the very seat previously held by progressive stalwarts like Stevens, Justice William Douglas and Justice Brandeis, this simply does not feel right. This is the traditionally progressive seat on the Supreme Court and it seems far from clear that Elena Kagan will stand for the principles of legal interpretation brought by those who have filled this seat since 1916.

Is this really the legacy President Obama wants to leave behind?

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