Meet Your New Supreme Court Justice

Solicitor General Elena Kagan began the long process of becoming the next justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on Monday morning. While her nomination is expected to meet some token Republican resistance, she will inevitably be confirmed before the Senate's summer recess. That is, of course, unless she just continually repeats Christopher Walken's monologue from Pulp Fiction in response to her Senatorial grilling, but that seems highly unlikely.

Much of the Republican hullabaloo is likely to stem from the fact that Kagan has never served as a judge and thus lacks the experience necessary to hold the post. However, such criticism holds little water since former conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist and several other highly respected justices had no prior judicial experience before serving either. In the end, the whole process will be a lot like that cop arresting/beating that 17-year-old jaywalking girl. It may take a lot longer than you expect, but you know who is going to win.