From this morning's Earlybird:

• "Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan began winning over Senate centrists during her second day on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers," The Hill reports. "Three pivotal centrists, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), gave Kagan positive reviews after meeting with her privately."

• Brown "did not wait long in his meeting with her Thursday to raise her role in barring military recruiters at Harvard Law School," the New York Times reports.

• "If the Senate confirms" Kagan, "she would serve on a Supreme Court that is likely to take on big questions regarding the powers of the federal government, notably the constitutionality of President Obama's health-care overhaul," the Washington Post reports.