Jeffrey Rosen, law professor at George Washington University tells us more about the nominee; headlines.

Later this morning, President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. The Senate confirmed her appointment to her current position last year, 61-39. Justice Stevens has long been a reliably liberal voice on the court and Kagan would likely continue that philosophy. If confirmed, she would be the third woman on the court and the first justice in nearly forty years who has not already served as a judge.

• Greece's Bailout: In an effort to limit the global scope of Greece's financial crisis, European governments and the IMF have pledged almost one trillion dollars in emergency funding to Eurozone countries. BBC Europe reporter Dominic Hughes explains.
• Sports Takeout: Dallas Braden from the Oakland Athletics threw a perfect game yesterday against the Tampa Bay Rays. Takeaway sports contributor, Ibrahim Abdul Matin recaps the game, and looks ahead to the NBA Conference Finals. 

We take a look at what's ahead this week, with Marcus Mabry, associate national editor of The New York Times, and Derrick Ashong, host of "The Derrick Ashong Experience" on Sirius XM's Oprah Radio.

Over the weekend, ice crystals clogged the inside of a 98 ton steel dome that BP hoped would contain the ongoing flood of crude oil spewing from the site of their broken rig. The crystals, called hydrates, which formed inside the dome made the structure too buoyant to settle on to the seabed, where it could have formed a water-tight seal around the site of the oil drainage. As BP plans more attempts to cap the gusher, we listen back to what has been tried so far.

For this week's conversation about family, we talk with John Schwartz about his book "Short: Walking Tall When You're Not Tall At All." Among the issues he explores are confidence, prejudice, and the choice of some parents to "treat" their children's small stature with hormones.

We're asking listeners of any height: Has your height served as an advantage or disadvantage in your life?

New York Times finance reporter, Louise Story, fills us in on Wall Street's wacky week; headlines.

In the 1983 film, "War Games," a military supercomputer with a personality brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Today, we’re looking at last week’s “Flash Crash,” during which the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped just under 1,000 points in under an hour and then bounced nearly all the way back.

• OIL SPILL TAKEOUT: We check in with Captain Kathy Wilkinson, who operates an eco-tourism business in southern Mississippi. She describes the nervous anticipation in the air as Mississippians wait for the oil slick to break on the coast. Check out her blog post for more on the spill's business impact.
• LISTENERS RESPOND: Over the phone and on the web, Takeaway listeners weigh in on the oil spill and share their favorite movie moms in honor of Mother's Day.

Both Conservatives and liberals have their concerns about Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. Senior editor for Slate, Emily Bazelon, explains that the left worries that she is too untested, while the right worries that she is too "gay friendly." This is based on a fight about the government's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy, when law schools didn't allow military recruiters to come to schools.

Senior members of the Obama administration confirmed yesterday that Faisal Shahzad, the suspected Times Square bomber, was directly helped by the Taliban in Pakistan.

Singer and actor, Lena Horne, died on Sunday night at age 92. We take a look back at the star, who was the first black actress to sign a contract with MGM. During WWII her fame grew as she appeared on the Army radio program “Command Performance.” She became active in the Civil Rights movement and continued to record songs into the 1990s.

The biggest issue facing Elena Kagan may be the fact that she's never been a judge. New York Times reporter, Adam Liptak explains.

What exactly would it take to get you to green your commute? The answer turns out to be: a lot. A new study out by the Brookings Institution shows that, while there's been a slight uptick in public transit ridership, over three quarters of Americans still get to work by driving themselves alone in their cars.

There is still a lot that is unknown about President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. The question remains as to whether her positions as solicitor general can tell us what she'd be like as a Supreme Court judge.

We talk to two conservative legal experts about Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, and listen to their opposing opinions on two issues that are sure to have critics talking: the banning of military recruiters at Harvard's Law School Office of Career Services, and Kagan's role in the Citizens United case.