Is there dynamite in Elena Kagan's papers from the Clinton White House? The timing of the release suggests there is. Julie Hirschfeld Davis reports for AP (emphasis added):

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's paper trail is about to get a lot longer.

The William J. Clinton Presidential Library is scheduled Friday afternoon to release the first batch of a 160,000-page trove of records from Kagan's service in the former president's White House. The National Archives announced it would post 46,500 pages on the library's website.

As everyone who has been around politics any length of time knows, Friday afternoon is when you release damaging information that you can't spike altogether. The information is reported in the weekend papers, when most people are out fishing or whatever and not really paying attention to politics. By Monday, it is old news, and old news is no news.

We do have Ms. Kagan's earlier work as a clerk for Thurgood Marshall. I will link to that in a separate post.