Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faced her first day of confirmation hearings the Senate, with praise and criticism falling generally along party lines. Judy Woodruff talks with Marcia Coyle of the ...

The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan are over. The final day included testimony from outside witnesses who support and oppose her nomination. With the hearings now concluded ...

Justice Elena Kagan began her testimony at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday by honoring late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), referencing a famous exchange during her 2010 confirmation ...

Editors of SCOTUSBlog will live blog the hearings, and PBS will provide streaming video. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faces the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Throughout her confirmation ...

(CNN) — Solicitor General Elena Kagan was easily confirmed Thursday as the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, completing the 50-year-old native New Yorker’s climb to the peak of the ...