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Elena Kagan
Solicitor General - Supreme Court Nominee Documents
On May 10, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan for appointment to the United States Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy that will be created by the impending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens.
This research set contains 19,782 pages of documents related to Elena Kagan. Materials collected from sources including the National Archives and Records Administration, William J. Clinton Presidential Library, Library of Congress, Department of Justice, Harvard University, Oxford University, United States Supreme Court, United States Senate Judiciary Committee and the Federal Election Committee.
The scanned original documents contain a text transcript of all recognizable text embedded into the graphic image of each page of each document, creating a searchable finding aid. Text searches can be done across all files in this set at once.
Key documents in this set include:
United States Senate Judiciary Committee Public Questionnaire for Supreme Court Nomination (2010). Includes basic information provided by Kagan about her education, employment record, honors and awards received, bar association memberships, cases in which Kagan recused herself, the ten matters she litigated she feels were the most important, her narrative of the selection process that led to her being nominated to the Supreme Court.
United States Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire - 1999 Nomination to D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. On June 17, 1999, President Clinton nominated Elena Kagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Senate Judiciary Committee's Chairman Orrin Hatch did not schedule a hearing; this had the effect of ending her nomination. The end of President Clinton's term caused her nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court to lapse.
Elena Kagan's application for her clerkship under Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Includes her resume, Harvard Law School transcript containing her law school grades, and letters of recommendation.
Kagan's Princeton and Oxford University theses. The Princeton thesis is titled, "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933." The Oxford University thesis is titled, "The Development and Erosion of the American Exclusionary Rule: A Study in Judicial Method."
An amicus brief filed in support of FAIR in its suit against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, challenging the Solomon Amendment, whose signatories include Elena Kagan. The 1996 Solomon Amendment became federal law. It allowed the Secretary of Defense to deny federal grants to institutions of higher education if they prohibit or prevent ROTC or military recruitment on a campus.
Filings made with Federal Election Committee documenting political campaign contributions made by Kagan.
E-mails to and from Kagan concerning the Solomon Amendment and military recruiting at Harvard Law School, and reforms made at HLS by Kagan as dean.
Harvard Law School press releases from 2003 to 2009.
Letters received by the United States Senate Judiciary Committee concerning Kagan's 2009 nomination for solicitor general.
A 1997 memo from Kagan as a Clinton Administration staff member on the Partial Birth Abortion Act.
Kagan's 2010 financial statement of net worth.
Kagan's 2009 financial disclosure form.
United States Senate Judiciary Committee Public Questionnaire for Solicitor General Nomination (2009).
Major sections in this research set include:
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - WILLIAM J. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FILES
173 pages of Clinton Administration files linked to Elena Kagan. Many of these files include handwritten notes in the margins placed there by Kagan. Kagan served in the Bill Clinton Presidential Administration from 1995 to 1999, as Associate White House Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Topics include: abortion, assault weapons, campaign finance, civil rights, Clinton's race initiative, cloning, hate crimes, immigration, Indian gaming, Native American law enforcement, needle exchange programs, race committee, racial profiling and welfare reform.
CONGRESSIONAL HEARING TRANSCRIPTS - SOLICITOR GENERAL NOMINATION 2009.
United States Congress, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Confirmation Hearings on the Nominations of Thomas Perrelli Nominee to be Associate Attorney General of the United States and Elena Kagan Nominated to be Solicitor General of the United States, February 10, 2009. Includes written questions from Chairman Patrick Leahy for Elena Kagan and her answers.
SUPREME COURT ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS
Transcripts of the six cases in which Solicitor General Kagan made oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court.
SPEECHES
Typed and handwritten manuscripts of 44 speeches given by Elena Kagan from 1992 to 2010.
ARTICLES WRITTEN BY ELENA KAGAN
Seventeen pieces written by Elena Kagan, dating from 1986 to 2009.
COURSES TAUGHT AT HARVARD
Course outlines for six classes taught by Kagan at Harvard.
SOLICITOR GENERAL SUPREME COURT BRIEFS
16,904 pages of briefs filed with the Supreme Court. Cases in which Kagan as Solicitor General, served as counsel of record. Includes a short digest, outlining the cases' issues, the Obama Administration's position, and the Supreme Court's ruling in each case in which a merits party brief, merits amicus brief, petition for certiorari, or a brief submitted at the invitation of the Court was filed.
Briefs include Merits Party Briefs, Merits Party Reply Briefs, Merits Amicus Briefs, Briefs Filed at the Invitation of the Court, Petitions for Certiorari, Petitions for Certiorari Reply Briefs, Petitions for Certiorari Responses, Miscellaneous Filings and Messages to the Supreme Court.
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