How Will Elena Kagan Change the Supreme Court?

By U.S. News Staff

August 6, 2010 RSS Feed Print

Elena Kagan will take her oath tomorrow to become the country's 112th Supreme Court justice, after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate yesterday with a 63-37 vote. With three women now serving on the Supreme Court--Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg--Thomas Jefferson Street blogger Mary Kate Cary says Kagan will have a big effect, and having three women serving will change the way the court asks questions. "Things will never be the same in the highest court," she writes.

What do you think? Will Elena Kagan change the dynamics of the Supreme Court? Or is she too inexperienced as a judge to have a major impact? Take our poll and post your thoughts below.

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I wonder who will play the man in a Kagan/Sotymeyer relationship?

I also wonder if Hillary will join them in all the fun?

I guess the mainsteam media was right, the dyknamics of the Court really have changed. HA HA HA HA H HA HAHAHAHAHHAH AHHAHHHAHHA

huddy's brother of MO 4:28PM August 07, 2010

-she is the ugliest judge ever by far,considering Ginsberg and Sotymeyer that is really saying something.

-she is the manliest Judge ever by far

-she is the first judge that is unidentifiable by gender

-she is the first Judge that will have the complete following of the female women's basketball coaches association.

-She might be the first Judge to marry another judge, contigent perhaps on whether or not Sotymeyer is available.

huddy of MO 4:23PM August 07, 2010

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