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8:50 AM ET, May 10, 2010

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msnbc.com:
NBC: Obama to name Kagan for high court  —  Kagan, 50, is currently solicitor general; would be court's third woman  —  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, NBC News' Pete Williams reported late Sunday night.
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New York Times:
Obama Is Said to Choose Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country's future …
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
Where We Go From Here  —  The Administration plans to identify its nominee in “guidance” at 7:20 tomorrow morning, with a formal announcement by the President at 10 a.m.  —  If the nominee is Elena Kagan, then Mike Allen of Politico will go down as the reporter with the best information on the Administration's thinking, bar none.
New York Times:
Kagan's Climb Is Marked by Confidence and Canniness  —  WASHINGTON — She was a creature of Manhattan's liberal, intellectual Upper West Side — a smart, witty girl who was bold enough at 13 to challenge her family's rabbi over her bat mitzvah, cocky (or perhaps prescient) …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama taps Kagan for Supreme Court  —  President Barack Obama will name Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his second nominee to the Supreme Court Monday - a by-the-books pick straight from the top of his short list that seems designed to avoid a major confirmation battle with Republicans.
Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
AP: Obama Taps Elena Kagan for Supreme Court  —  Associated Press Reporting Solicitor General Kagan to Be Fourth Woman Nominated to Supreme Court  —  President Obama has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the Associated Press.
Discussion: The Swamp and American Power
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
What Obama sees in Kagan  —  It's Kagan!  —  Why is President Obama choosing his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, as his second nominee to the U.S Supreme Court?  By all accounts, Obama wants someone who can serve as a counterweight to the intellectual heft of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
The Night Beat: Kagan It Is  —  At 11:00 a.m. ET, President Obama will introduce his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, as his choice for associate justice of the Supreme Court.  The pro-forma criticism will come from the right; the more interesting response will be from the left …
Washington Post:
Elena Kagan said to be Obama's Supreme Court pick  —  President Obama plans to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, sources said late Sunday night.  —  Kagan, 50, the former dean of Harvard Law School, would become the fourth woman to serve on the high court …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Elena Kagan never let lack of experience hold her back
Discussion: Truthdig
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
AP source: Obama chooses Kagan for Supreme Court
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
THE SKINNY ON ELENA KAGAN
David Lat / Above the Law:
More Clues That It Will Be KaganJudge Wood was notified tonight …
CBS News:
Obama to Nominate Elena Kagan to Supreme Court
Discussion: DaTechguy's Blog and Pajamas Media
New York Times:
E.U. Details $957 Billion Rescue Package  —  BRUSSELS — European leaders, pressured by sliding markets and doubts over their ability to act decisively, agreed on Monday to provide a huge rescue package of nearly $1 trillion in a sweeping effort to combat the debt crisis that has engulfed Europe and threatened markets around the world.
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Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Federal Reserve opens credit line to Europe  —  WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve late Sunday opened a program to ship U.S. dollars to Europe in a move to head off a broader financial crisis on the continent.  —  Other central banks, including the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
ecb.int:
ECB decides on measures to address severe tensions in financial markets
Discussion: Guardian and Calculated Risk
Bloomberg:
EU Preps $645 Billion Fund to Fight ‘Wolfpack,’ Debt Crisis
Discussion: Firedoglake
New York Times:
Markets Welcome E.U. Rescue Package
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msnbc.com:
May 9: Eric Holder, roundtable
Discussion: Commentary and American Spectator
Gary Gibbon / Snowblog:
Perhaps an outline deal today  —  Outside Cabinet Office.  Lib Dems went in saying it was going well.  They have Jim Wallace now in the team going in with them.  William Hague on his way in just said they were “optimistic of making further progress very soon”.
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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Tories wait as Lib Dems weigh up their offer
Anthony Wells / UK Polling Report:
More election stats
Ben Casselman / Wall Street Journal:
Rig Owner Had Rising Tally of Accidents  —  The sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which triggered the spill spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, caught the energy world by surprise.  The operator, Transocean Ltd., is a giant in the brave new world of drilling for oil in deep waters far offshore.
Discussion: Clusterstock and The Page
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
In the Gulf of Mexico, what went wrong with the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Unfogged
Aljean Harmetz / New York Times:
Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92  —  Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.
Alvin McEwen / The Huffington Post:
Religious right can lie about gay community without George Rekers  —  While George Rekers has pretty much destroyed his own credibility as an “expert” on the lgbt community, religious right groups who utilized his studies probably aren' t worried about losing him as a resource.
 
 
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