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Text of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's remarks on Monday after President Barack Obama nominated her for the Supreme Court, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.

Text of President Barack Obama on Monday in announcing Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee to the Supreme Court, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds." She would be the court's youngest justice and give it three female members for the first time.

WASHINGTON - Solicitor General Elena Kagan would be the first person in 38 years to join the Supreme Court without first serving as a judge.