A broad group of former law clerks who worked with Elena Kagan at the Supreme Court some 20 years ago are calling her exceptionally well-qualified to be a justice. Twenty-nine people who were fellow clerks from 1987 to 1988, when Kagan worked for former Justice Thurgood Marshall, are writing to the Senate Judiciary Committee to endorse her.
They span the ideological spectrum, including former clerks to Justice Antonin Scalia, the court's conservative icon, and to one of its most liberal stalwarts, former Justice William Brennan.
Vice presidential chief of staff Ron Klain is one of the signers, as are conservative lawyers Miguel Estrada and Peter Keisler, two of former President George W. Bush's failed judicial nominees.
