Elena Kagan

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Elena Kagan (2010)

Elena Kagan [ ˈkeɪɡən ] (born April 28, 1960 in New York City ) is an American lawyer . Since the beginning of August 2010 she has been a judge at the Supreme Court of the United States (English: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ). She is the 112th member of the Supreme Court and the fourth woman in that office.

Kagan taught at the Law Faculty of the University of Chicago , served under President Bill Clinton as a legal advisor in various capacities in the White House and was starting from 1999 as a lecturer at the Harvard Law School worked, the first female dean she worked from 2001 by 2008. On January 26, 2009, she was named United States Solicitor General by President Barack Obama and on May 10, 2010, she was nominated to succeed the resigning Judge John Paul Stevens for the Supreme Court. The US Senate confirmed Kagan's appointment on August 5, 2010 with 63:37 votes, two days later she was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts . The formal introduction to her office took place on October 1, 2010.

Youth and Studies

Elena Kagan was the second of the three children of Gloria Gittelman Kagan († 2008) and Robert Kagan († 1994), both American-born Jews of Eastern European descent, born in New York. Robert Kagan was a lawyer and was one of the founders of the New York law firm Kagan & Lubic; Gloria Gittelman Kagan was a teacher and taught at Hunter College Elementary School. The Kagan family first lived in Stuyvesant Town , then on Manhattan's Upper West Side . After graduating from Hunter College High School in 1977, Kagan studied at Princeton University , where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with summa cum laude in 1981 . In her thesis, supervised by the historian Sean Wilentz , she dealt with the beginnings of the socialist movement in New York in the first third of the 20th century ( To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City 1900 - 1933, Princeton 1981). In 1981 she received a postgraduate scholarship with which they the two years Worcester College of Oxford University visited. There she completed her studies in 1983 with a Master of Philosophy . In 1986 she graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor degree .

career

Kagan at a meeting with Barack Obama in April 2010

Kagan worked in the summer of 1983 as a research assistant (paralegal), during her law studies in the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an intern (summer associate) in several large New York law firms , then for a short time as a research assistant ( research assistant ) with the constitutional lawyer Laurence H. Tribe at Harvard Law School. From 1986 to 1987 Kagan was a law clerk for Abner J. Mikva , judge at the Federal Court of Appeals in Washington, DC ( DC Circuit of Appeals ), and from 1987 to 1988 she worked in the same capacity for Supreme Court judge Thurgood Marshall .

In 1988, she became involved during the presidential election in the election campaign of the candidates of the Democratic Party , Michael Dukakis . After his electoral defeat, Kagan worked from 1989 to 1991 as a lawyer ( litigator ) for the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington before she accepted a position as a law professor at the University of Chicago.

In 1995, President Clinton hired her as assistant legal advisor to the White House , where she served in various roles in the President's Executive Office for the next four years . From 1995 to 1996 as Associate Counsel to the President, 1997 to 1999 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. In 1999, at the end of his second presidency, President Clinton nominated Kagan for a judge's position on the Circuit of Appeals in Washington, DC. Their nomination, however, failed due to opposition from Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee .

In 1999 Kagan accepted a visiting professorship at Harvard Law School, and from 2001 she was full professor there. In 2003 she was appointed dean . She was the first woman in this position, which she held until 2009. She was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2011 . On January 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated her for the office of United States Solicitor General , which was confirmed by the Senate on March 19, 2009. In this capacity, she represented the state at the Supreme Court as an attorney and defense attorney. Here, too, she was the first woman to hold this office.

The President introduces Elena Kagan, 2010

In May 2010, President Obama nominated her as a Supreme Court Justice. This nomination was criticized because Kagan never served as a judge in a court of law. It was occasionally suspected that she was ultimately more of a political activist than a lawyer. The Senate hearings lasted about a month. On August 5, 2010, her appointment was confirmed by the Senate with 63:37 votes. It received all but one of the votes from members of the Democratic Party, five votes came from members of the Republican Party. Obama's adviser David Axelrod later reported that the conservative judge Antonin Scalia had suggested Kagan's nomination because - knowing that no one for his political orientation would be nominated - he wanted at least "someone smart".

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Baker, Jeff Zeleny: Obama Picks Kagan as Justice Nominee , www.nytimes.com, May 10, 2010, accessed May 10, 2010
  2. ↑ Los Angeles Times: Elena Kagan sworn in as Supreme Court justice
  3. ↑ New York Times July 25, 1994 - Obituary . Nytimes.com. July 25, 1994. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ July 13, 2008 - obituary notice . New York Times. July 13, 2008. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  5. ↑ Law firm KAGAN, LUBIC, LEPPER, LEWIS, GOLD & COLBERT, LLP - Homepage . Kll-law.com. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  6. ↑ Amy Goldstein, Carol D. Leonnig, and Peter Slevin: For Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, a history of pragmatism over partisanship The Washington Post, May 11, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2010
  7. ^ A b Documents from Princeton University Archives . Princeton.edu. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  8. ^ Princeton University - Information on the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship . Princeton.edu. October 27, 2008. Archived from the original on September 24, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 18, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.princeton.edu
  9. ↑ Cass Cliatt: Princeton University News May 10, 2010 Princeton alumna Kagan nominated to the Supreme Court . Princeton.edu. May 10, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  10. ↑ Law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP - homepage . Paulweiss.com. Retrieved December 23, 2010., Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP Law Firm - Home Page . Ffhsj.com. Retrieved December 23, 2010., Post: The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2010: Elena Kagan's Questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee for Her Nomination as Solicitor General - Elena Kagans' questionnaire for the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate upon her appointment to Solicitor General) / Article + pdf . Online.wsj.com. May 10, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  11. ^ Homepage of the law firm Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC . Wc.com. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  12. ↑ Post: The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2010: Elena Kagan's Questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee for Her Nomination as Solicitor General - (Elena Kagan's questionnaire for the Judicial Committee of the US Senate on the occasion of her nomination as Solicitor General) / Article + pdf . Online.wsj.com. May 10, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  13. ↑ Welt-Online May 10, 2010: Obama wants a non-judge for the Supreme Court
  14. ↑ Biography.com: Elena Kagan's biography ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biography.com
  15. ↑ Member History: Elena Kagan. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Beat Ammann: Three women in the US Supreme Court. Obama's second judge from the Senate confirmed Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 7, 2010. Accessed August 11, 2010
  17. ↑ US Senate confirmed Elena Kagan as the highest judge . Wiener Zeitung , Friday, August 6, 2010. Accessed November 8, 2013
  18. ^ David Axelrod: A Surprising Request from Justice Scalia. In: CNN.com , February 14, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Kagan, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, US Supreme Court Justice
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City