More than 20 years ago, President Bill Clinton nominated Elena Kagan for a spot on the federal appeals court. But Senate Republicans never took up the nomination and Kagan never became a lower court ...

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Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan are well matched, rhetorically forceful opposites. And they have been clashing for more than a decade over an increasingly relevant question of ...

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday warned in her dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court’s approval of Texas’s ...

The Supreme Court has handled a flood of appeals from the Trump administration on its emergency docket, also known as the shadow docket. In the first six months of Trump’s term, the conservatives on ...

There is so much buzz about the coming Facebook re-branding. CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted at this several times recently when he discussed the metaverse. The problem is that no one knows what the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elena Kagan declined to discuss her passions, demurred when asked anything that might tip her hand on the Supreme Court and invoked her right to remain inscrutable even on cases ...

The magnificent author and son of the Great Santini, Pat Conroy, began “The Prince of Tides” with these words: “My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.” Those 13 words ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said on Wednesday that a court’s legitimacy comes from carrying out the responsibilities it has and not making political or policy decisions. Kagan spoke at ...

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