STLToday.com

Home > News > Politics
Solicitor General Elena Kagan nominated for Supreme Court
Date: 5/10/2010 Album ID: 1001462
Slideshow icon View Slideshow
Pages: 1 2
President Barack Obama announced the U.S. solicitor general and former dean of Harvard Law School Elena Kagan as his nominee to the Supreme Court. The former domestic policy aide in Clinton's White House, Kagan would be the third women on the the current court.
WASHINGTON - MAY 10: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) applauds Solicitor General Elena Kagan after he announced her as his choice to be the nation's 112th Supreme Court justice during an event in the East Room of the White House May 10, 2010 in Washington, DC. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the former Harvard Law School dean would be the first justice to join the high court without prior judicial experience since William Rehnquist in 1972. Kagan was selected by Obama to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
WASHINGTON - MAY 10: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Vice President Joe Biden (L) applaud for Solicitor General Elena Kagan after Obama announced her as his choice to be the nation's 112th Supreme Court justice during an event in the East Room of the White House May 10, 2010 in Washington, DC. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the former Harvard Law School dean would be the first justice to join the high court without prior judicial experience since William Rehnquist in 1972. Kagan was selected by Obama to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan looks to President Barack Obama as she speaks during and an announcement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
WASHINGTON - APRIL 30: In this handout image provided by the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Solicitor General Elena Kagan in the Oval Office April 30, 2010 in Washington DC. Obama nominated Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens and become the 112th Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walk with Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan for an announcement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
Solicitor General Elena Kagan stands with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as she is introduced as Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
Solicitor General Elena Kagan smiles as she is introduced as President Barack Obama's choice for Supreme Court Justice in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden applaud as Solicitor General Elena Kagan is introduced as President Obama's choice for Supreme Court Justice in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
In this undated photo released by Hunter College High School in New York, Elena Kagan, second from left in the front row, poses with members of the school's student government in the school's 1977 yearbook. Kagan, wearing a robe and holding a gavel, was the student council president. The others are unidentified. Solicitor General Elena Kagan was nominated Monday, May 10, 2010, to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Hunter High School) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
In this May 9, 2010 photo provided by The White House, President Barack Obama talks on the phone to Solicitor General Elena Kagan from the Treaty Room in the White House residence. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
This 1993 photo provided by the University of Chicago Law School, shows assistant professor Elena Kagan at the university in Chicago. On Monday, May 10, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, declaring she would demonstrate the same independence, integrity and passion for the law exhibited by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. (AP Photo/University of Chicago Law School) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
In this 1993 photo provided by the University of Chicago Law School, Elena Kagan, an assistant professor, plays softball at the university in Chicago. On Monday, May 10, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, declaring she would demonstrate the same independence, integrity and passion for the law exhibited by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. (AP Photo/University of Chicago law School) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
This June 3, 2009 photo released by the Harvard University Law School shows U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, left, assisting during the promotion ceremony for Harvard Law School graduate and U.S. Army Capt. Kyle Scherer, center, with his parents, right, on the school's campus in Cambridge, Mass. President Barack Obama nominated Kagan to the Supreme Court, on Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Harvard Law School, Phil Farnsworth) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
This Sept. 11, 2009 photo released by the Harvard University Law School shows U.S. Solicitor General and former Dean of Harvard Law School Elena Kagan, center, listening to law professor Charles Fried, left, alongside law professor John F. Manning, right, on the university campus in Cambridge, Mass. President Barack Obama nominated Kagan to the Supreme Court, Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Harvard University News Office, Jon Chase) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
This Jan. 21, 2004 photo released by the Harvard University Law School shows Elena Kagan, then dean of the law school, at the grand opening of the school's new ice skating rink in Cambridge, Mass. President Barack Obama nominated Kagan to the Supreme Court, Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Harvard University News Office, Stephanie Mitchell) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
Students at Hunter College High School in New York watch as U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan is introduced as President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Monday, May 10, 2010. Kagan attended Hunter College High School before going on to Oxford, Princeton and Harvard. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
In this undated photo released by Hunter College High School in New York, Elena Kagan is seen in a photo in the school's 1977 yearbook. Solicitor General Elena Kagan was nominated Monday, May 10, 2010, to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Hunter College High School) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
In this undated photo released by Hunter College High School, Elena Kagan raises her arm during a class trip to Philadelphia, in a photo from the school's 1977 yearbook. Solicitor General Elena Kagan was nominated Monday, May 10, 2010, to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Hunter College High School) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
This 1991 photo provided by the University of Chicago Law School shows assistant professor Elena Kagan at the university in Chicago. On Monday, May 10, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, declaring she would demonstrate the same independence, integrity and passion for the law exhibited by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. (AP Photo/University of Chicago Law School) NO SALES
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
FILE - In this April 3, 2003 file photo, Harvard Law School Prof. Elena Kagan, left, chats with her former law students Danielle Gray, center, of Riverhead, N.Y., and Hien Tran, right, of Arlington, Va., on campus in Cambridge, Mass. after it was announced that Kagan will be the next dean of Harvard Law School. President Barack Obama nominated Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, May 10, 2010, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean one of the nation's foremost legal minds. Danielle Gray was named an Associate Counsel to President Obama in 2009. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)
Email Page to FriendEnlarge this Photo
Pages: 1 2
MyCapture, Inc. - A Second Street Media, Inc. Solution
© MyCapture, Inc. - A Second Street Media, Inc. Solution All rights reserved.

FAQ | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Order Status