August 5 , 2010
PBS Newshour
On August 5, 2010, the Senate confirmed Solicitor General Elena Kagan, former Dean of the Harvard Law School, to become the next Supreme Court Justice of the United States, replacing Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who served for thirty-five years.
Professor Paul Butler joined Newshour correspondent Ray Suarez in conversation with Professor Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz in predicting how Justice Kagan might affect the future of the Supreme Court and the nation's jurisprudence.
Stream the video of the segment below.
