Comments on: Elena Kagan’s Situation http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/elena-kagans-situation/ Sat, 18 May 2013 14:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Adam Benforado http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/elena-kagans-situation/#comment-17467 Wed, 12 May 2010 18:01:14 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=10733#comment-17467 I’m assuming that it’s because she’s a “Situationist friend and supporter.”

Friends get first names . . . perhaps until they become judges/justices (and perhaps forever).

Of course, if your point is that there might be some sort of implicit gender dynamic going on (along the lines of calling the Secretary of State “Hillary” but the President “Obama”), that’s worth thinking about.

]]> By: dave hoffman http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/elena-kagans-situation/#comment-17447 Tue, 11 May 2010 12:06:32 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=10733#comment-17447 I’m sure it is excessively formal and old-fashioned to think this, but is there any reason you didn’t refer to S.G. Kagan by her current or former Deanish title, rather than by her first name? I guess I would have been surprised had you referred to then-Judge(s) Alito or Roberts as Sam or John…

]]> By: Kagan is currently the Solicitor General of the United States http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/elena-kagans-situation/#comment-17425 Mon, 10 May 2010 17:22:30 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=10733#comment-17425 [...] Elena Kagan's Situation « The Situationist [...]

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