Reply #26: Solicitor General Elena Kagan successfully argued [View All]

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the government's case in front of the Supreme Court. Kagan has now been nominated to replace the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

Kagan in January compared the government's power to commit sexual predators to its power to quarantine federal inmates whose sentences have expired but have a highly contagious and deadly disease.

''Would anybody say that the federal government would not have Article I power to effect that kind of public safety measure? And the exact same thing is true here. This is exactly what Congress is doing here,'' she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/17/us/politics/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Sex-Offender-Law.html?hp