News from Washington Post relatin to newly appointed Supreme court judge:
Kagan is the former dean of Harvard Law School, worked in the Clinton administration and was a colleague of Obama's at the University of Chicago law school. He chose her to be the government's top appellate lawyer and representative at the Supreme Court, the first woman to hold the job. Republicans complained during her confirmation for that job about her lack of courtroom experience — her first argument at the Supreme Court last September was her first in any court—and that she refused to answer questions on specific constitutional questions and cases. Conservative legal activists denounced her decision to forbid military recruiters on the law school campus because the ban on military service by gays violated the university's antidiscrimination policies. She was confirmed on a 61-31 vote.
