AP source: Elena Kagan picked for Supreme Court

AP source: Elena Kagan picked for Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) — Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be nominated today to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama, pushing the former law school dean toward the pinnacle of her profession and positioning the United States to have three women justices for the first time in its history. Obama will announce his choice in the East Room of the White House alongside Vice President Joe Biden. Kagan will also speak. The room will be filled with Kagan’s Justice Department colleagues and other guests invited to soak in one of a presidency’s biggest moments. Kagan has never been a judge.