Meet Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan

Round 2
Kagan was on Obama's short list in the summer of 2009 to fill Justice David Souter's vacancy on the Supreme Court, but he decided to go with Sonia Sotomayor instead. In this photo, the President and Kagan meet in the Oval Office on April 30, 2010, three weeks after Justice Stevens announced his retirement.

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