Next up: the Blood-Stained Sheets.

Elena Kagan's friends rally the troops, and marshall the evidence:

“I’ve known her for most of her adult life and I know she’s straight,” said Sarah Walzer, Kagan’s roommate in law school and a close friend since then. “She dated men when we were in law school, we talked about men — who in our class was cute, who she would like to date, all of those things. She definitely dated when she was in D.C. after law school, when she was in Chicago – and she just didn’t find the right person.”
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Walzer recalled sharing a spacious, mouse-infested second floor apartment with Kagan in Somerville, Mass., the city adjoining Cambridge, in the early 1980s, when Kagan was a student at Harvard Law School. The second-floor of a triple-decker, the house had a large dining room where they hosted frequent dinner parties – Walzer did the cooking – for friends who lived in dormitories or smaller apartments.

“There definitely were strategic invites,” Wazler recalled. “She’d say, ‘This is somebody I’m interested in’ and I’d say ‘I’ll make sure he’s one of the people we invite.’”

The two were eventually joined in the apartment by John Barrett, a fellow student who would go on to marry Walzer. They remained close friends when both lived in Washington, and then after Kagan moved to Chicago – Walzer called ahead to scout for “single guys,” she said -- and then back to Cambridge.

These friends are playing Defense? Not too practiced at it...

And in a Reverse Wingman move:

Another friend, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a member of Kagan’s social circle at Princeton University, wanted to make the same point as Walzer. “I did not go out with her, but other guys did,” he said in an email Tuesday night. “I don't think it is my place to say more.”

Next up: the blood-stained sheets.

I still don't see how this identity politicking = good judging meme runs true. But the jury's still out...