Elena Kagan's Warning to Progressives
The liberal justice wants the Supreme Court’s harshest progressive critics to chill out.
The liberal justice wants the Supreme Court’s harshest progressive critics to chill out.
In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Justice Kagan rejects the conventional liberal narrative about the Supreme Court.
Justice Kagan tells Congress she prefers to call it the "emergency docket."
Justices Kagan and Sotomayor have signed on to at least one opinion that expressly relied upon the major questions doctrine.
Rushing out opinions can lock in erroneous conclusions and create problematic precedent.
Justice Kagan said "it just can't be right" that a single court judge can stop a federal policy in its tracks nationwide.
Other than the Chief, Justice Kagan wrote the fewest opinions.
Unanimous rulings on discrimination, guns, and religion once again challenge the common media narrative that the Court is hopelessly polarized.
Thanks to C-Span, video is now available.
Candid end of term comments from one of the Court's progressive justices.
Her concurrence is a reminder that the application of criminal law should not be infected by personal animus toward any given defendant.
There is a great deal of panic surrounding the "extreme" nature of the current Court. But that is often not based in reality.
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