Kagan sworn in as fourth woman on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – Elena Kagan was sworn in Saturday as the 112th justice and fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to Kagan in a brief private ceremony at the court. Kagan, joined by family and friends, pledged to faithfully and impartially uphold the law.
Afterward, she smiled broadly as a crowd of onlookers stood and applauded. “We look forward to serving with you,” Roberts said.
Kagan, a former Harvard Law School dean who most recently was solicitor general, was President Barack Obama’s choice to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. Republicans criticized her as a political liberal, before the Senate confirmed her this past week on a vote of 63-37.
She was sworn in twice Saturday by Roberts — reciting one oath as prescribed by the Constitution during a ceremony in a conference room at the court with only her family present. Kagan then recited a second oath, taken by judges, with her family and friends and reporters present.
Kagan won’t be formally installed as a justice until Oct. 1 in a courtroom ceremony at the start of the court’s new term. But after the oaths taken on Saturday, she will be able to begin assuming her duties as a justice, which include reviewing cases and emergency appeals filed to the Supreme Court.
Kagan, 50, joins Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor on the nine-member court, which often divides 5-4 on high-profile cases such as gun rights, discrimination and campaign finance. The first woman in the court’s history, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, retired in 2005.
Kagan isn’t expected to alter the ideological balance of the court, where Stevens was considered a leader of the liberals.
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Supreme court justices always go through a “trial by fire” as they should. They get to decide what laws stay and which laws don’t for several decades to come. Oddly enough I’m actually ok that Kagan is sworn in because she is a liberal (or supposedly she is; she is accused by some on the left of being too “moderate”). That is because the Supreme court SHOULd always be closely divided ideologically to ensure there’s always fiery debate on each issue (it is currently 4 left, 5 right).
Since she has no history that we can really rank on expect her to be moderate or left. That’s just my guess. This actually favors us rightwingers because there is actually a chance she could go to the right. However, she is the brainchild of Obama, who desperately knows he will have a ton of people and states challenging him on the Health Care bill plus Immigration, and really any of his future pet projects. Kagan may attempt to support Obama however he wants the supreme court of the land to vote so watch out in the future.
Of course if she upholds the obamacare bill and federal oversight over immigration (the latter is more likely to favor uncle sam and not the states) then well I guess we are fucked.
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