Elena Kagan on her way to become a Supreme Court Justice

The fight within the Senate Judiciary Committee came to a head on Tuesday when Solicitor General Elena Kagan was approved of the nomination to become the nation's fourth female Supreme Court justice. As was expected, the support for her nomination ran right between party lines, as the Republicans claimed that she had no experience as a judge and therefore should not be nominated, whereas the Democrats claimed that she was a strong legal thinker. Republicans also claimed that she was unfit to be a Supreme Court justice because of her political opinions. What seemed to be acknowledged on both sides was that the longer the hearings went on, the more uncleamr answers would surface about her judicial philosophy. This was frustrating and played a big part in why members gave up and nominated her. The straw to break the camels back seemed to appear when Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina, decided to break away from the partisan GOP vote in favor of her nomination. He also happened to be the sole vote in favor of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor's nomination last year. President Obama now will have become successful in choosing two Supreme Court justices that will have made it to the bench.