{"id":569207,"date":"2010-05-18T16:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.34997"},"modified":"2010-05-18T17:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:08:23","slug":"david-axelrod-valerie-jarrett-played-role-in-elena-kagan-supreme-court-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569207","title":{"rendered":"David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett played role in Elena Kagan Supreme Court pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8212;New details about who interviewed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan before President Obama picked her emerged on Tuesday, with Chicagoans David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett &#8211;White House senior advisors&#8211;playing a role in Kagan being picked.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the selection process was in an extensive questionnaire released Tuesday with  the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>On April 7 Kagan&#8211;a former University of Chicago Law School professor&#8211; met White House senior advisor David Axelrod; on May 6 she met with Valerie Jarrett, also a senior advisor. Obama nominated her on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>She apparently did not meet with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.<\/p>\n<p>FOOTNOTE: Axelrod is a U. of C. grad; Jarrett is a former U. of C. board member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8212;New details about who interviewed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan before President Obama picked her emerged on Tuesday, with Chicagoans David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett &#8211;White House senior advisors&#8211;playing a role in Kagan being picked. More information about the selection process was in an extensive questionnaire released Tuesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee. On April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}