Kagan Distances Herself From Left-Leaning Movements

WASHINGTON—Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan rejected several influential liberal legal theories in documents filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday, distancing herself from intellectual movements conservatives have criticized.

Read Elena Kagan's answers to Senate Judiciary Committee questions Read about Legal Realism and Justice Sonia Sotomayor Her remarks were made at the same time that Republicans signaled that they are likely to force a one-week delay in the committee vote on her nomination. The vote is currently scheduled for Tuesday. A delay in the partisan deliberations has been expected.

Asked to pick the most influential justice of the past 100 years, she bypassed Thurgood Marshall, for whom she clerked from 1987 to 1988, and cited Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Kagan Distances Herself From Left-Leaning Movements