Kagan hopes Supreme Court’s ideological divide on precedent isn’t permanent
The nine-member court has been dominated by six conservatives since 2020, but justices appointed by both Republican and Democratic presidents often seek to downplay the…
The nine-member court has been dominated by six conservatives since 2020, but justices appointed by both Republican and Democratic presidents often seek to downplay the…
Kagan insisted she was not responding directly to Justice Samuel Alito’s blunt statements in an interview last month that Congress would be violating the Constitution’s…
But Kagan, the Democratic appointee who has sought to be a consensus-builder for much of her legal career, broke sharply with the court’s tradition of…