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Five Republicans broke ranks to
back the 50-year-old former Harv ard
Law School dean, and just one
Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson of
Nebraska, voted against her.
She was sworn in on Saturday by
Chief Justice John Roberts, but will
not be formally seated until Oct. 1
for the court’s fall session.
Though never seriously in doubt,
her confirmation to the lifetime post
gave President Barack Obama and
his Democratic allies a much-needed
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is sworn into office on
victory before November mid-term
Saturday as the Supreme Court's 112th justice and the fourth
elections in which they are expected
woman in its history. (AP photo)
to suffer heavy losses.
Thanking the Senate, Obama said John Paul Stevens," he said, refer
he was "confident that Elena Kagan ring to the retiring leader of the
will make an outstanding Supreme court's liberal bloc.
Court Justice."
But Kagan was not expected to
The confirmation brought to two tip the overall ideological balance of
the number of justices named by the the court, which many observers
president - after the court's first have described as the most conser
Hispanic justice, Sonia Sotomayor - vative in decades.
- and the total number of women on
Nominating Supreme Court ju s
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time ever.
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