The WSJ has a good summary of Elena Kagan's background and experience. There's lots more on the intertubes.
My own take: she's far less bad than someone Obama might have appointed if the political situation wasn't so disastrous for the Democrats right now. I suspect he and his aides have done the political calculus, and are betting that Ms. Kagan has the right combination of relatively mild leftism and absence of rabid anti-conservatism to at least have a chance of making it by the Senate.
It could have been much worse...
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