Kagan for the Supreme Court?

Now that she has been confirmed as Solicitor General Kagan sure has the resume for a future U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Clerked for the Supreme Court (Justice Thurgood Marshall), Dean of Harvard Law School, U.S. Solicitor General.

"She is widely regarded as a serious candidate for any opening on the high court that would be filled by President Barack Obama, her former University of Chicago Law School teaching colleague. Justices John Paul Stevens, 88, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 76, and David Souter, 69, are considered the most likely to retire during Obama's presidency."

And I really like the fact she is only 48 years old right now. The Republicans seem to have mastered the art of late of appointing relatively young (and very conservative) Supreme Court Justices like Alito, Roberts, and Thomas - increasing the odds of them serving decades and decades and saddling us with bad decisions for years to come.

And speaking of Harvard Law School, did you know who the only other President besides Obama who went there was? Rutherford B. Hayes. Wouldn't have been towards the top of my list of guesses.