Elena Kagan - Confirmation Hearings Live Coverage

Archive video of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. More video coverage »

Hearing Transcripts:
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Kagan's emails

Five that have created controversy. Read the emails »

Archived analysis: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | NOTE: No live blog on Day 4

Five Senate Republicans supported Kagan, 50, to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. One Democrat, Ben Nelson (Neb.), was opposed. Kagan, a self-described progressive, is not likely to tilt the balance of the court.
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Kagan vote tracker

Explore how members voted, and compare to how they voted on Kagan's nomination to be solicitor general and on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination.

Kagan: 'Judges are not partial in deciding cases'

Excerpts from Kagan's review of Stephen Carter's book 'A Confirmation Mess.'

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Kagan's background

Bio Information
Born: 1960
Education: Princeton University, Oxford University, J.D. Harvard Law School
Experience: Solicitor General, Former associate White House counsel, Former dean of Harvard Law School

Elena Kagan: In profile

The backstory on the president's nominee.

Kagan in her own words

Document reader

View documents and testimony related to Kagan's 2009 confirmation hearings for solicitor general, as well as her personal financial disclosures.

Kagan on the issues

Find out where she stands on issues such as gun control, due process and same-sex marriage.

Timeline of Kagan's life

April 28, 1960	Born in New York City.
1981	Graduates with B.A. in history from Princeton University.
1983	Receives M.Phil. from Oxford University's Worcester College.
1986	Graduates from Harvard Law School.
1986-87	Clerks for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
1987-88	Clerks for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1988	Works as staff member, Dukakis for President campaign.
1989-91	Works as an associate at Williams & Connolly, a Washington D.C. law firm.
1991-95	Joins the University of Chicago Law School as an assistant professor; becomes a full professor in 1995.
Summer 1993	Works as special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court.
1995-96	Serves as associate White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
1997-99	Works as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
1999-2009	Becomes a professor at Harvard Law School. In 2003, named as dean of Harvard Law School.
March 2009 - present	U.S. solicitor general.

TIMELINE SOURCES: Staff Reports, WhoRunsGov;

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Paper trail

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Kagan through the years

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