Obama nominates top lawyer Kagan to US Supreme Court
May 10th, 2010 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 10 (DPA) President Barack Obama Monday nominated the administration’s chief lawyer, Elena Kagan, to serve on the highest US court.
Kagan, 50, would become the fifth woman to be a justice of the Supreme Court and would join two other women currently serving on the nine-member bench.
A career lawyer, Kagan currently argues cases on behalf of the administration before the Supreme Court as Obama’s solicitor general. But she has never been a judge - the first time since the 1970s that an individual without experience in the judicial branch has been nominated.
The Supreme Court must confirm Kagan’s nomination.
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