From Clevland Jewish News
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elena Kagan would make it three — three women and three Jews on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in its history.
President Obama, announcing Monday the nomination of his solicitor general to fill retiring Justice John Paul Stevens’ seat ont the Supreme Court, made one historical element of the nomination explicit; the other was implied.
"She would relish, as I do, the prospect of three women taking their seats on the Supreme Court for the first time in history," Obama said of Kagan’s late mother, who fought gender discrimination as a lawyer.
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