Kagan Coverage Roundup

President Obama has announced Elena Kagan as his nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. As confirmation gets underway, here's a roundup of what The Atlantic has written about Kagan and the selection process over the last year:

• Kagan could make the court more conservative, veteran Supreme Court journalist Stuart Taylor, Jr. writes.

• Don Verrilli, an associate White House counsel, is the leading candidate to replace Kagan as solicitor general

• The White House issued several pages of talking points on Kagan

• Andrew Sullivan asks: So Is She Gay?

• Kagan was successfully confirmed by the Senate as solicitor general just last year. Here's a recap of that vote.

• Some conservatives are supporting her nomination

• Here's a look at the political dynamics at play in Kagan's nomination and confirmation

• Obama wasn't looking to pick a partisan fight with his next court pick, Marc notes; his short list, this time around, included uncontroversial names who would likely be confirmed quickly.

• Marc analyzes the sexual politics surrounding Kagan and the Supreme Court, as social conservative and gay rights advocates alike have whispered that Kagan is gay and someone should acknowledge it

• Carrie Severino of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network says Kagan has been tight-lipped throughout her career, giving the right few public statement to attack her with.

• When Kagan was bandied as a possible pick last year, Judicial Crisis Network produced a web video attacking her as an academic peacenik opposed to the military. (This was part of an attack website that also went after Sotomayor and Diane Wood.)

• Michael Kinsley examined what people mean by "ideology" and "conservative" when they talk about judges.