Solicitor General Elena Kagan, making the Capitol Hill rounds as part of the ritual dance for Supreme Court nominees, will stop by Maryland Sen. Benjamin Cardin's office on Thursday for a photo and a chat.

A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Democratic senator voted for her confirmation in her current position. He'll be voting to confirm her as a justice, too.

The White House on Wednesday night released Kagan's schedule for Thursday. It includes separate meetings and separate photos with Senator John Kerry, Senator Arlen Specter, Senator Charles Schumer, Democrats all, Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, Senator Cardin, Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, and Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat.

All are Judiciary members except Kerry, Collins and Brown. Kerry and Brown are her "home state" senators. The Harvard law dean was nominated as a Massachusetts resident, rather than as a New Yorker, which anyone who ever heard her speak knows is her real home state.

Brown and Collins are potential, make that likely, Republican votes for confirmation when Kagan's nomination finally hits the Senate floor this summer, after the Judiciary hearings are done.