James R. Copland: Kagan's likely to swerve left

Elena Kagan, President Obama’s second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, would be the first justice to join the nation’s highest judicial body without prior experience as a judge since William Rehnquist in 1972. Her record as a litigator is essentially limited to the last 14 months, when she has served as the nation’s solicitor general. And her record of scholarship, while impressive, is rather narrow.