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4A – Daily News – Tuesday, May 11, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Elena Kagan would give Supreme Court three females for first time WASHINGTON (AP) — Introducing his Supreme Court nominee to the nation, Presi- dent Barack Obama on Monday portrayed Elena Kagan as a guiding force for a fractured court and a champion of typical Americans. She would be the youngest justice on the court and give it three women for the first time in history. Less excited, Republican senators said they would give the nomination a long, hard look in potentially contentious summertime confirmation hear- ings. One declared he would oppose her, but Democrats hold a strong majority of Senate seats, making eventual approval likely. In choosing Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general and a former dean of Harvard Law School, Obama sought someone he hopes will seal majority votes on a divided court, as the retir- ing Justice John Paul Stevens sometimes had the ability to do. The president, who said Kagan has ‘‘one of the nation’s fore- most legal minds,’’ wanted someone who could counter the court’s conservative leaders as well as sway votes with her thinking and temperament. Obama chose a nominee who has never been a judge, a factor the White House said had worked in Kagan’s favor, giving her a different perspective from the other justices. Poised to put his imprint on the court for a second time, the president embraced Kagan’s profile: a left-leaning lawyer who has won praise from the right, earned political experience at the White House and on the col- lege campus, cleared one Sen- ate confirmation already and served as the nation’s top lawyer. He wanted not just a justice comes as David Cameron’s Conservatives — which won the most seats in Parliament but fell short of a majority — strug- gled in their attempts to win over the third-place Liberal Democrats. Brown’s party has been will- ing to entertain supporting the Liberal Democrats’ demand for an overhaul of the voting sys- tem toward proportional repre- sentation, which would greatly increase that party’s future seat tallies. But the evening brought a further twist with a counterof- fer from the Conservatives — a referendum on a less dramatic type of electoral reform. While uncertainty prevails, to the displeasure of the mar- kets, one thing appears certain: The career of Brown — the Treasury chief who waited a decade in the wings for his chance to become prime minis- ter — is winding to an end. Brown, looking statesman- like but resigned to political reality, accepted blame for Labour’s loss of 91 seats in last week’s election and its failure to win a parliamentary majority. Employer health premiums will who would thrive, but one who would lead. 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