Good morning from The Oval. It’s Selection Monday at the White House, as President Obama nominates Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the nation’s 112th Supreme Court justice.
Kagan, who would be the fourth woman to serve on the high court, is a “highly credentialed lawyer who has spent her career in the corridors of legal power,” writes Joan Biskupic of USA TODAY.
If the Senate confirms Kagan, the court would for the first time have three sitting female justices. Kagan would also be the first non-judge on the court since Nixon appointees William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell took the judicial oath in 1972.
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