A note that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote when she worked as an aide to President Bill Clinton suggests that she favored letting stand a measure to provide federal money to religious groups, despite some constitutional objections from the Justice Department, writes The Wall Street Journal.

Ms. Kagan wrote the brief note at the bottom of a magazine article in the 1990s, in answer to a note President Clinton had written above of the article. However, much is unclear from the note, which was released this week by the Clinton library in Little Rock, Ark., and White House officials have cautioned that Ms. Kagan’s views cannot be fully discerned without further context.

Yet analyzing Ms. Kagan’s thinking on such topics is important, says the newspaper, because the separation of church and state often comes up in cases before the high court.

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