Senate confirms Elena Kagan to Supreme Court Justice
Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in Elena Kagan as the nation’s 112th Supreme Court justice on Saturday, generating one-third with the nation’s highest court women for the first time in history.
Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Roberts telephoned Kagan to offer “warm congratulations” Thursday, shortly after the Senate confirmed her towards the post. The 63-37 vote represented a victory for President Obama, who has doubled the amount of women actually named towards the Supreme Court with his first two nominees.
“I am confident that Elena Kagan will make an outstanding Supreme Court justice,” Obama stated in Chicago, in which he was traveling. “And I’m proud, also, of the history we’re making with her appointment.”
Kagan, 50, was the initial woman to serve as U.S. solicitor general as well as the first woman dean of Harvard Law School. When the court reconvenes on the first Monday in October, Kagan will join Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor as the initial trio of women serving together as justices.
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