Well look at President-elect Smarty Pants, Barack Obama. First he goes an appoints a Harvard Nerd, Larry Summers, as his chief White House economic advisor. Now he's got another dweeb in the pipeline, in the form of Elena Kagen, who he wants to nominate as solictor general.Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan is a leading candidate to be President-elect Barack Obama's representative at the US Supreme Court, Bloomberg is reporting this afternoon.
Bloomberg, quoting "people familiar with the selection process," says Kagan, the first female dean at Harvard law school, and former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan are the two top contenders for solicitor general, a post that might be a step toward a seat on the Supreme Court itself...
Kagan, who has never argued a Supreme Court case, has a long-standing connection to Obama. The two worked on the University of Chicago Law School faculty at the same time during the 1990s.


